Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]:  Rhetorica ad C. Herennium.

Paris:  Au Soufflet Vert (Louis Symonel et Socii), 29 Dec. 1478.
Fol.   [1-5¹⁰].   [50] leaves.
ISTC ic00680400;  GW 6725;  Pell 3642.

GIP number:	C63
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.16 (see main library entry for this item)
Variant:	5/10v (f. 50v), line 30:  “rhetoricorū” not as in GW and Pell “rethoricorū” and line 32:  “Anno.M.CCCC.Lxxviii.” not as in GW and Pell “Anno .CCCC.Lxxviii.”
Provenance:	Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV:  Gaignat sale, 1769;  lot 1460 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive:  supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris:  1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 17 livres 1 sou;  see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen 36, f. 23r). University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “A.6.7”.
Binding:	France, 18th-century blue goatskin;  covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner;  gold-tooled spine with printer’s name given as “Gering” after title;  gilt-edged leaves;  marbled endpapers;  pink silk bookmark.   Size:  258 x 187 mm.
Leaf size:	252 x 182 mm.
Annotations:	Very occasional early annotations;  occasional manicules.
Decoration:	Six-line initial “E” on 1/1r supplied in red and black with reserved white;  other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout (some erroneous initials later corrected in brown ink);  a few guide-letters supplied in brown ink.
Imperfections:	None.