1570 Copia of Erasmus of Rotterdam Renaissance RHETORIC Speech Writing Gryphium

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” ― Erasmus

The ‘Duplici Copia’ was a wide-spread treatise by Erasmus written to accompany students who aspired to possess an elegant and high style of writing. “Foundations of Style”, as it is referred to in English, provided abundant examples of how to say the same word or phrase in a number of different ways. First appearing in 1512, this book was reprinted numerous times throughout the 16th-century. According to J.E. Walsh,
“This work is more important than its elementary nature might indicate, for it provided a handbook not only for the intimation of the words of the ancients but for the absorption of their ideas as well.”

This 1570 edition is a reissue of the first Gryphium printing in the mid-16th-century, bound in original vellum binding

Item number: #1276

Price: $750

Note: Manuscript on inside of vellum binding

ERASMUS, Desiderius

De duplici copia verborum ac rerum : commentarij duo

Lugduni : Apud Antonium Gryphium, 1570.

Details:

Collation complete with all pages: 319, [3]
Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
Language: Latin
References: Adams E 585 (1550 ed);
Size: ~6.75in X 4.25in (17cm x 11cm)
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