Epitome Fabii Quintiliani nuper summo & ingenio & diligentia collecta, qua possit studiosa iuuentus, quicquid est Rhetoricae institutionis apud ipsum authore[m], breuiore compendio & multo facilius adsequi. Authore Iona Philologo

Paris: Simon de Colines, 1542. CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN POLISHED CALF (old stains, corners worn, hinges cracked), blind-ruled outer border around inner border of three blind fillets with gilt foliate ornaments at the corners, at center a gilt-stamped crowned scepter between lions rampant combatant (owner's name or motto scraped from both boards), spine with six gilt flowers (base chipped).

With: Varro, Marcus Terentius. 116-27 B.C.E.
De lingua Latina ac verborum origine conscripsit, fragmenta. Paris, S. de Colines 1529. 8vo. 102, [13], [1 blank] leaves.

With: Pandoni, Giovanni Antonio. before 1409-after 1485.
Trium Poetarum Elegantissimorum, Porcelij, Basinij, & Trebani opuscula. Paris, S. de Colines 1539. 8vo. 108 leaves. Title woodcut Colines device (Schreiber Tempus II).

With: Erasmus, Desiderius. 1467-1536.
Brevissima Maximeqve compendiaria conficiendarum epistolarum formula. Paris, S. de Colines and F. Estienne 1543. 8vo. [iii], [20]p. Title in a woodcut Colines border (Schreiber "Sol Aureus").

Ad I: This schoolbook Epitome, adapted from Quintilian's ancient rhetorical manual, emphasizes rhetorical structure, presentation and style. It was edited by the humanist Johann Günther von Andernach (1505-74), who translated texts for Colines and later taught Vesalius. No copies of this edition recorded in the U.S. In good condition (minor marginal staining).
¶Renouard, Bibliographie des éditions de Simon de Colines 361; BP16 110753.
Ad II-IV: Three additional Colines imprints on Latinity and composition, comprising: the only Colines edition of the surviving fragments of Varro's On The Latin Language (II); the first edition of Neolatin poems praising Sigismondo Malatesta of Rimini and his mistress Isotta degli Atti (III); and the third Colines edition of Erasmus's abbreviation of his own letter-writing guide (IV). All are good copies (minor marginal staining, a few natural paper flaws, the last lightly browned), scattered underlining and marginal annotations throughout; from the library of T.K. Brooker.
¶Ad II: Renouard 144; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie. Lateinische Schriftsteller II: 1118; BP16 106142.
Ad III: Renouard 314; Ellinger, Geschichte der neulateinischen Literatur I:77-79; BP16 109494.
Ad IV: Renouard 373; Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne 100,6; Vander Haeghen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana 54; BP16 111182.