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[ALDINE PRESS]. AESCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.) Tragoediae sex, in Greek. Edited by Franciscus Asulanus. Venice: Andreas Torresanus at the Aldine Press, February 1518.
Aldine 8o (154 x 87 mm). Greek type, editor's Latin preface to the reader in italic type. Woodcut device on title-page and final leaf verso. 18th-century English speckled calf, spine with gilt coronets, speckled edges (rebacked with original spine preserved, lacks lettering-piece); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: H. Wynne Finch (signature on front pastedown) -- Giorgio Uzielli (bookplate) -- sold Sotheby's, New York, 24 September 1986, lot 99 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 13 November 1986.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. "The Aldine press issued the Greek text in 1518; but its linguistic difficulty was so great that many passages defied the editor's efforts to make the poetry intelligible (Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy, p.158). Contributing to the difficulty was a defective manuscript which lacked the end of Agamemnon and the beginning of Coephores, which led Asulanus to conflate the two in a single play. Aeschylus was the last of the major Greek authors to be printed. Adams A-262; Ahmanson-Murphy 143; BM/STC Italian, p.8; Renouard 85.9.
Aldine 8o (154 x 87 mm). Greek type, editor's Latin preface to the reader in italic type. Woodcut device on title-page and final leaf verso. 18th-century English speckled calf, spine with gilt coronets, speckled edges (rebacked with original spine preserved, lacks lettering-piece); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: H. Wynne Finch (signature on front pastedown) -- Giorgio Uzielli (bookplate) -- sold Sotheby's, New York, 24 September 1986, lot 99 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 13 November 1986.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. "The Aldine press issued the Greek text in 1518; but its linguistic difficulty was so great that many passages defied the editor's efforts to make the poetry intelligible (Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy, p.158). Contributing to the difficulty was a defective manuscript which lacked the end of Agamemnon and the beginning of Coephores, which led Asulanus to conflate the two in a single play. Aeschylus was the last of the major Greek authors to be printed. Adams A-262; Ahmanson-Murphy 143; BM/STC Italian, p.8; Renouard 85.9.