XII Caesares. Ex vetusto exemplari emendatiores multis locis. Paris, Robert Estienne, 17 November 1543. [Bound with:] FENESTELLA (Lucius). De magistratibus & sacerdotiisque Romanorum. Pomponius Laetus itidem de magistratibus &sacerdotis, & praeterea de diversis legibus Romanorum. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1549
SUETONIUS
2 works in one vol. Sm. 8vo. [8]ff. 352pp. [2]ff. (last leaf blank). 111pp. [3]ff.(lacks final blank). 19th century English green morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt and panelled back.g.e. 1549
An important edition which Schreiber writes, "has long been recognized to be one of the principal Renaissance editions . . . it was edited by Robert himself, who claims to have established the text with the help of a vetustum exemplar, which is believed to be the Codex Memmianus, our oldest and best manuscript of Suetonius".
This is also one of the earliest of Robert Estienne's classics to be printed in his new italics of which the first example was the Cato, printed on 17 July 1543. Estienne had been most anxious to produce editions of the Latin classics at a low price and in a compact form, in the manner of the classics printed by the Aldine Press. His new italic type was cut by Claude Garamond, in the manner of the Aldine italic.
Bound at the end is the the first Estienne edition of works on the Roman legal system by Andreas Dominicus Floccus (written under the pseudonym Lucius Fenestella) and Pomponius Laetus.
Some staining around edges at beginning.
Adams S1042 & F603. Renouard p. 58, no. 11 & p. 75, no. 21. Schreiber 71 (Suetonius). Fenestella not in Schreiber.
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