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Anthologia diaforon epigrammaton palaion (graece) ... Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum veterum. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1566.
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Anthologia diaforon epigrammaton palaion (graece) ... Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum veterum. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1566.
4° (257 x 158 mm). Woodcut printer’s device on title. (Some light browning.) Early 19th-century red morocco gilt (some darkening to spine and edges, slight rubbing). Provenance: Arthur Machen (acquired at The Anderson Auction Company, sale 4 December 1903, lot 74).
Estienne's important edition of the “Greek Anthology,” which provided a far superior text than its predecessors. “For this edition Henri devised a system of diacritical marks ‘peculiar to himself’ (‘notae sibi peculiares’) to denote various classes of proper nouns… [and] also employs in the margins the symbol of the hand with pointing finger to call attention to gnomic expressions in the text” (Schreiber). Adams A-1187; Schreiber 159.
4° (257 x 158 mm). Woodcut printer’s device on title. (Some light browning.) Early 19th-century red morocco gilt (some darkening to spine and edges, slight rubbing). Provenance: Arthur Machen (acquired at The Anderson Auction Company, sale 4 December 1903, lot 74).
Estienne's important edition of the “Greek Anthology,” which provided a far superior text than its predecessors. “For this edition Henri devised a system of diacritical marks ‘peculiar to himself’ (‘notae sibi peculiares’) to denote various classes of proper nouns… [and] also employs in the margins the symbol of the hand with pointing finger to call attention to gnomic expressions in the text” (Schreiber). Adams A-1187; Schreiber 159.
