Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutionum Oratoriarum Libri XII., title with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, final f. with colophon recto otherwise blank, small repair to upper corner of first 3 ff., worming (mostly a single trace) to some outer margins, occasionally affecting a few letters, spotted, occasional staining, lightly browned, attractive early 17th century black calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with floral decoration, covers with small oval centre-piece and floral corner-pieces, all within a single filet border, spine little worn at head, creased, and with a few small wormholes at foot, lower corners little worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Adams Q64; Renouard, Estiennes, 53:9], small 4to, Paris, Robert Estienne, 1542.*** 'Édition estimable' (Renouard) of this work on the theory and practice of rhetoric.