ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, Quintus (9 BC-76 AD). Expositio in IIII orationes M. Tullii Cic. contra C. Verrem. Venice: Aldo Manuzio heirs- Andrea Torresano, 1522. First Aldine edition of the surviving works of the grammarian Asconius Pedianus, a commentary on Ciceronian orations, written in the 1550s AD and rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1416 in St. Gallen 8vo, (165 x 100 mm). Aldine device to title page and colphon (restoration to the outer margin of the first leaves with integrations affecting a rebbo, a small stain to the outer margin of the last three). 18th century leather binding with decoration and gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers (chipping to spine and small woodworm holes).