De Officiis and Paradoxa

Item author: Cicero
Item date: 1465
Grant Value: 150
Item cost pre-decimal: 1300
Item date acquired: 1953
Item institution: Liverpool University
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside

The first classical text to be printed. Complete and in good condition; bound in full red morocco dated 1817. Illustrated as plate I of AR

Item Provenance
The Knowsley copy, bought by the Earl of Derby from the Duke of Sussexs library in 1845; earlier history unknown