THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
AESCHYLUS (525/4-456 B.C.). Tragoediae Sex, in Greek. Ed. Franciscus Asulanus. Venice: Aldine Press, February 1518.

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AESCHYLUS (525/4-456 B.C.). Tragoediae Sex, in Greek. Ed. Franciscus Asulanus. Venice: Aldine Press, February 1518.

8° (172 x 110 mm.). Greek type. Printer's woodcut device. (A few minor stains.) 19th-century English roan gilt (worn), EDGES UNCUT. Provenance: unidentified contemporary Greek scholar (early marginalia throughout in a humanist Greek hand; Richard Heber (stamp); British Museum (cancellation stamp).

EDITIO PRINCEPS of Aeschylus's most important tragedies: Prometheus, Septem contra Thebas, Persae, Agamemnon, Eumenides and Supplices. Renouard 85.9; Hoffmann I, 32; Isaac 12897; Adams A-262.

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