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AESCHYLUS. Tragoediae sex. Greek text, edited by Francesco Torresani. 113, [1] leaves, including colophon leaf. 8vo, 150x110 mm, 18th-century vellum boards with remnant of leather lettering piece; title lightly soiled, with triangular piece excised from blank outer margin and restored, worming in blank upper margin of opening leaves, extensive early marginalia in Greek, partly cropped. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, February 1518)
first edition in the original greek of the surviving plays of the first of the 3 great ancient Greek tragedians. Renouard, page 85(9); New UCLA 164; Hoffmann I, 32-34.
