Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Aristotle (385-323 BC)
Rhetorica seu Arte Dicendi Libri Tres, Graecolat.

London: Edward Griffin, 1619.

First English printing of Aristotle's Rhetoric, quarto, A-Z4, Aa-Ii4 (A1 & Ii4 both blank & present), title page printed within large woodcut compartment, large woodcut arms on verso of title, translated by Theodore Goulston (circa 1575-1632), printed in three columns in Greek and Latin with shoulder notes throughout; bound in modern full calf; signatures of several contemporary or near-contemporary Oxford University students, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.

STC 766; ISTC S100218; http://estc.bl.uk/S100218