MINIATURE - SILK PRINTING] [PINDAR - ODES IN GREEK]. Ta Tou Pindarou Olympia . Glasgow: Excudebant R.A. Foulis, 1754. Full contemporary red morocco, the covers tooled in gilt, the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with raised bands and remnant of black morocco spine label, colored paper endpapers. The text, printed in Greek on silk: 3 x 1 3/4 inches (8 x 5 cm); the binding: 3 1/8 x 2 inches (8.5 x 5.5 cm); 158 pp. (A-K^(8). Faint old dampstain visible in some margins but worst at endpapers, one stray pencil mark to one margin, the silk generally clean, a front free flyleaf detached and with small loss (this sheet with manuscript note reporting purchase in 1833), the binding rubbed at places but sound overall, small losses to lettering label. A scarce miniature Pindar in Greek finely printed on silk. This work is the first of four Foulis publications of Pindar in miniature between 1754 and 1758 and is from an unknown but surely small group printed on silk. While a few copies on silk are known institutionally they are rare at auction, with ABPC reporting only two copies sold. These are the Houghton copy (Christie's 1979) and the Irene Winterstein copy (Christie's South Kensington 2000) which was described as "somewhat worn, upper cover detached." Gaskell, 274; ESTC T134376; Brunet IV, 660; Mikrobiblion 192. C
MINIATURE - SILK PRINTING] [PINDAR - ODES IN GREEK]. Ta Tou Pindarou Olympia . Glasgow: Excudebant R.A. Foulis, 1754. Full contemporary red morocco, the covers tooled in gilt, the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with raised bands and remnant of black morocco spine label, colored paper endpapers. The text, printed in Greek on silk: 3 x 1 3/4 inches (8 x 5 cm); the binding: 3 1/8 x 2 inches (8.5 x 5.5 cm); 158 pp. (A-K^(8). Faint old dampstain visible in some margins but worst at endpapers, one stray pencil mark to one margin, the silk generally clean, a front free flyleaf detached and with small loss (this sheet with manuscript note reporting purchase in 1833), the binding rubbed at places but sound overall, small losses to lettering label. A scarce miniature Pindar in Greek finely printed on silk. This work is the first of four Foulis publications of Pindar in miniature between 1754 and 1758 and is from an unknown but surely small group printed on silk. While a few copies on silk are known institutionally they are rare at auction, with ABPC reporting only two copies sold. These are the Houghton copy (Christie's 1979) and the Irene Winterstein copy (Christie's South Kensington 2000) which was described as "somewhat worn, upper cover detached." Gaskell, 274; ESTC T134376; Brunet IV, 660; Mikrobiblion 192. C
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