DEMOSTHENES

Orationum pars secunda. In qua iudiciales novem eius publicae orationes continentur. Venice, (apud Francisci Brucioli),

      8vo. (160 x 105mm.). [8] (last two blank), 364, [4]ff. (last blank). Light brown calf, covers with gilt fillets painted black, large central panel with arabesque cornerpieces and large central oval arabesque ornament all in gilt with hatched and silver decoration (now oxidised), a repeated small gilt rosette tool fills the background (rebacked with covers laid down). 1544. Sadly only volume two of three from this edition of Demosthenes, edited by I.B. Felicianus.The fine late 16th century English gold-tooled panels are very similar to those produced by the so-called "Dudley Binder", whose work for Robert Dudley, the future Earl of Leicester, is well known. For similar examples see: H.M. Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding(1978), no. 17, and M.M. Foot, Henry Davis Gift, II, no. 43.BMSTC (Italian), p. 213. Adams D 262.