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SOPHOCLES.
Tragoediae septem.
Greek text. [196] leaves, including the 3
integral blanks and final leaf with Aldine device on verso; [tau]5.6 misbound inside
[
upsilon] 4.5. 8vo, 147x93 mm, 19th-century calf with large blind-stamped ornamental
panel on covers, rebacked retaining original gilt-tooled backstrip; occasional marginal
dampstaining and light soiling, small hole in title not affecting text, 2 old ownership
inscriptions on colophon page, the earlier one erased leaving small hole affecting one letter
on recto.
(
Venice: House of Aldus, August 1502)
[10,000/15,000]
FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK
of the extant plays of Sophocles, published without
the commentary called for on the title. This was the first Greek classical text to appear in the
Aldine portable format. Renouard, page 34(6); New UCLA 60; Hoffmann III, 411.
