Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SOPHOCLES. Tragodiai hepta . . . tragodiae septem. [200] (of [204]) leaves, including blank 2[alpha]8; lacks the final 4-leaf gathering of errata and epigrams found in some copies. 8vo, 18th-century red morocco gilt, spine darkened and dulled, with lettering pieces off, joints rubbed; some soiling and stains on opening leaves, light dampstain in upper outer corners in middle of volume, scattered early marginalia in Greek. Bookplates of Joseph Brereton (1721?-87) of Queens' College, Cambridge, with his collation note dated 1739, and Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Potter (1898-1941), with his ownership inscription dated 1929. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1528

Additional Details

Third edition and first printed outside Italy, reprinting the text of the 1502 Aldine editio princeps. Hoffmann III, 412; Schreiber 32.