ESTIENNE, Henri, II (1531-1598), editor. Poetae Graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli , in Greek. [Geneva:] Henri Estienne for Ulricus Fugger, 1566. 2 volumes bound in 3, 2° (349 x 215mm). Woodcut printer's device [Schreiber 9] on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Title and prefaces in Greek and Latin, text in Greek, retaining blanks I:2c6 and 3Z4, and II:3T4. (Very occasional light spotting or marking, title verso adhering to following binder's blank, marginal worming to gathering I:*, bifolium I:2D4.5 lacking but skilfully supplied in 18th-century manuscript facsimile, light marginal dampstaining on 2 gatherings of third volume.) 18th-century mottled calf gilt, boards with roll-tooled gilt borders, gilt armorials, gilt morocco lettering-pieces on spine, other compartments decorated with foliate tools, red edges (some scuffing and abrasion causing surface losses, short splits on joints, some worming on spines). Provenance : early manuscript annotations in Greek and Latin (principally to book I of the Iliad , adding commentaries from Spondanus et al. ) -- unidentified French marquis (arms on binding, and bookplates of a count of the same family). FIRST EDITION. 'UNQUESTIONABLY HENRI ESTIENNE'S TYPOGRAPHIC MASTERPIECE' (Schreiber). Apart from its typographic beauty (it is set in the two largest sizes of the Estiennes' celebrated 'grecs du roi'), the work is important because it established a critical text of Homer which became the accepted standard for some three hundred years. This edition also gives improved texts for a number of other important Greek writers, including Hesiod and Theocritus, and the editiones principes of several early Greek poets, including Solon, Tyrtaeus and Mimnernus. The present copy has been bound in three volumes, with the Iliad as volume I, the Odyssey and other Homeric pieces as volume II, and the remaining works by other authors as volume III. Adams P-1699; Brunet IV, 757 ('Ce recueil est d'une grand importance, parce qu'il présente de bons textes revus par Henri Estienne, et qu'il est fort bien imprimé'); Renouard Estienne p. 126, 1566 no.5; Schreiber 160. (3)
ESTIENNE, Henri, II (1531-1598), editor. Poetae Graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli , in Greek. [Geneva:] Henri Estienne for Ulricus Fugger, 1566. 2 volumes bound in 3, 2° (349 x 215mm). Woodcut printer's device [Schreiber 9] on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Title and prefaces in Greek and Latin, text in Greek, retaining blanks I:2c6 and 3Z4, and II:3T4. (Very occasional light spotting or marking, title verso adhering to following binder's blank, marginal worming to gathering I:*, bifolium I:2D4.5 lacking but skilfully supplied in 18th-century manuscript facsimile, light marginal dampstaining on 2 gatherings of third volume.) 18th-century mottled calf gilt, boards with roll-tooled gilt borders, gilt armorials, gilt morocco lettering-pieces on spine, other compartments decorated with foliate tools, red edges (some scuffing and abrasion causing surface losses, short splits on joints, some worming on spines). Provenance : early manuscript annotations in Greek and Latin (principally to book I of the Iliad , adding commentaries from Spondanus et al. ) -- unidentified French marquis (arms on binding, and bookplates of a count of the same family). FIRST EDITION. 'UNQUESTIONABLY HENRI ESTIENNE'S TYPOGRAPHIC MASTERPIECE' (Schreiber). Apart from its typographic beauty (it is set in the two largest sizes of the Estiennes' celebrated 'grecs du roi'), the work is important because it established a critical text of Homer which became the accepted standard for some three hundred years. This edition also gives improved texts for a number of other important Greek writers, including Hesiod and Theocritus, and the editiones principes of several early Greek poets, including Solon, Tyrtaeus and Mimnernus. The present copy has been bound in three volumes, with the Iliad as volume I, the Odyssey and other Homeric pieces as volume II, and the remaining works by other authors as volume III. Adams P-1699; Brunet IV, 757 ('Ce recueil est d'une grand importance, parce qu'il présente de bons textes revus par Henri Estienne, et qu'il est fort bien imprimé'); Renouard Estienne p. 126, 1566 no.5; Schreiber 160. (3)
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