AESCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.). Tragoediae VII , edited by P. Vettori & H. Estienne. [Geneva:] H. Estienne, 1557. 4° (241 x 158mm). Woodcut printer's device 15 on title (lacking final blank, title a little soiled and chipped with slight loss of margin, upper corner of a few leaves lightly waterstained not affecting text). 20th-century mottled half sheep (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance : old inscription on upper margin of title. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION of Aeschylus, "including the editio princeps of the Agamemnon , the greatest Aeschylean tragedy, and one of the greatest masterpieces of Western dramatic literature". Hoffmann I, 34; Schreiber 145.
AESCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.). Tragoediae VII , edited by P. Vettori & H. Estienne. [Geneva:] H. Estienne, 1557. 4° (241 x 158mm). Woodcut printer's device 15 on title (lacking final blank, title a little soiled and chipped with slight loss of margin, upper corner of a few leaves lightly waterstained not affecting text). 20th-century mottled half sheep (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance : old inscription on upper margin of title. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION of Aeschylus, "including the editio princeps of the Agamemnon , the greatest Aeschylean tragedy, and one of the greatest masterpieces of Western dramatic literature". Hoffmann I, 34; Schreiber 145.
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