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BOSWELL -- AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES. Tragoediae selectae, in Greek and Latin. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1567. 2 parts in one volume, half-sheet 16° (124 x 78mm), printer's device on title [Schreiber 9], with blank leaves aa7-8 at end of part one (faint marginal dampstain at lower corner), 17/18th-century vellum, red spine label (label chipped). Provenance: Alexander Boswell (1706-82), Lord Auchinleck of the Session (flyleaf inscription, 1728) -- by descent to his son, James Boswell (1740-95), then to James's son Alexander (1775-1822) -- dispersed at auction beginning in May 1825 (family crest with motto 'Vraye Foi' on title [trimmed]).
THE BOSWELL COPY of Estienne's pocket edition of eight Greek tragedies, all but one in the original Greek with a verse and a prose translation. The Boswell library at Auchinleck was formed largely by James's father, Alexander. In his own will James expressed his desire that the 'curious collection of the Classicks and other books' remain at Auchinleck, but in 1825, three years after the death of Alexander junior, its dispersal began. Gruys, Early Printed Editions of Aeschylus, II.8; Schreiber 169.
THE BOSWELL COPY of Estienne's pocket edition of eight Greek tragedies, all but one in the original Greek with a verse and a prose translation. The Boswell library at Auchinleck was formed largely by James's father, Alexander. In his own will James expressed his desire that the 'curious collection of the Classicks and other books' remain at Auchinleck, but in 1825, three years after the death of Alexander junior, its dispersal began. Gruys, Early Printed Editions of Aeschylus, II.8; Schreiber 169.
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