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AESCHYLUS.
Tragoediae sex.
Greek text, edited by Francesco Torresani.
113, [1]
leaves, including colophon leaf.
8
vo, 150x110 mm, 18th-century vellum
boards with remnant of leather lettering
piece; title lightly soiled, with triangular
piece excised from blank outer margin
and restored, worming in blank upper
margin of opening leaves, extensive early
marginalia in Greek, partly cropped.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea
of Asola, February 1518)
[8,000/12,000]
FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK
of
the surviving plays of the first of the 3 great
ancient Greek tragedians. Renouard, page
85(9);
New UCLA 164; Hoffmann I, 32-34.