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PLATO (ca. 429 - 347 B.C.). Omnia Opera, in Greek. Ed. Marcus Musurus. Venice: Aldus Manutius, September 1513.
2° (301 x 190 mm.). 2 parts in one volume: 268 and 220 leaves. Greek type. Printer's woodcut device. (A few insignificant stains.) Early 19th-century English russia gilt, edges gilt, (joints and corners worn). Provenance: Matthew Raine 1798 (collation inscription signed M.R.); Sir Robert D'Arcy Hildyard (armorial bookplate); Viscount Birkenhead (armorial bookplate; 1930 sale).
EDITIO PRINCEPS. The culmination of Aldus's Greek publishing programme. Renouard p. 62; Isaac 12828; Adams P-1436; Hoffmann III, 177.
2° (301 x 190 mm.). 2 parts in one volume: 268 and 220 leaves. Greek type. Printer's woodcut device. (A few insignificant stains.) Early 19th-century English russia gilt, edges gilt, (joints and corners worn). Provenance: Matthew Raine 1798 (collation inscription signed M.R.); Sir Robert D'Arcy Hildyard (armorial bookplate); Viscount Birkenhead (armorial bookplate; 1930 sale).
EDITIO PRINCEPS. The culmination of Aldus's Greek publishing programme. Renouard p. 62; Isaac 12828; Adams P-1436; Hoffmann III, 177.