Cicero, Marcus Tullius

M. Tullii Ciceronis De Finibus Bonorum & Malorum

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Typis Academicis, sumptibus Corn. Crownfield Cantabrigiæ [i.e. Cambridge] 1728 First Edition Libri Quinque. Ex Recensione Joannis Davisii, Coll. Regin. Cantab. Praesidis, cum Ejusdem Animadversionibus, Et Notis integris Petr. Victorii, P. Manucii, Joach. Camerarii, D. Lambini, ac Fulvii Ursini. 8vo. [226 x 140 x 44 mm]. [4] ff, 440 pp. Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the covers with a gilt double fillet border. The spine divided into six panels with gilt compartments, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, the others tooled with acorn and bud centres and floral volutes in the corners, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Slightly rubbed). A fine copy of the first edition of Cicero's De Finibus as edited by John Davies, a young friend of the great classicist Richard Bentley. This is the last of six editions of Cicero's philosophical works edited by Davies and printed at the Cambridge University Press; they were intended as a kind of supplement to the celebrated edition of Cicero's prose compiled by Graevius. "The last of these Cambridge editions by Davies (says Harwood) is the best printed and is very correct. Dr. Davies was a learned and judicious editor" - Dibdin. This copy is on large and fine paper, though neither Dibdin nor the ESTC makes mention of such copies - it is about an inch taller than copies on ordinary paper. It comes from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, and has the South Library bookplate, the shelf marks 161.a.35, and the small Macclesfield blind stamp on the first two leaves. Thomas Parker (1667-1732), the first Earl of Macclesfield, was a great patron of the arts and sciences. He certainly knew Davies well, and Davies had acknowledged his patronage by dedicating his edition of Cicero's De Divinatione to him in 1721. There are pencil notes in an early hand in the first portion of the text - by Macclesfield himself?

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