Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius. De institutione oratoria libri duodecim. Cum notis et animadversionibus virorum doctorum, summa cura recogniti et emendati per Petrum Burmannum. [And:] The same. Declamationes XIX majores, et Calpurnii Flacci declamationes. Curante Petro Burmanno. 2 parts in 4 volumes. 34 Bl., 1178 pp., 25 Bl.; 2 Bl., 838 pp., 67 Bl. Title in red and black. With stung frontispiece and 2 stung title vignettes. 26 x 21,5 cm. Leather d. C. (some rubbed, with modern, partly loaded paper backplate). Leiden, Johannes de Vivie, 1720. Silencer II, 844. Ebert 18468. – First edition of the extensive baroque text edition of Leiden's philologist and librarian Pieter Burman (1668-1741), "after earlier editions with the complete exegetical apparatus of the earlier exegetes. Unitarily bound specimen with the corresponding Declamationes Quintilians, both editions were also sold separately. Quintilian's instruction in the art of speech is the most important and most detailed preserved representation of the ancient art of speaking. – A little brownish-spotted, intentions more leimschattig. A well-preserved copy from the school library of the Blankenburg Gymnasium, with corresponding stamps and entries. – Attached: Petrus Burmann. Epistola ad Claudianum Capperonnerium de nova ejus M. Fabii Quinctiliani, De instituteio oratoria editione. 4 Bl., 102 pp., 1 Bl. Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1726.