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SOPHOCLES. Tragoediae septem. Greek text. [196] leaves, including the 3 integral blanks and final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 154x92 mm, early 19th-century red straight-grain morocco with gilt double-fillet border on covers and in spine compartments, spine darkened and brittle, missing portion at top, joints worn; scattered early and partly cropped Greek marginalia, marginal toning at beginning and end, title and last page soiled. Early signature of Johannes Baldwinus on title; bookplate of Douglas Maxwell Moffat. (Venice: House of Aldus, August 1502)
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); Ahmanson-Murphy 60; Hoffmann III, 411.
