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FANFARE BINDING EURIPIDES. Tragoediae. Greek text with Latin translation by Willem Canter and notes by Jean Brodeau et al.; edited by Aemilius Portus. [12], 747, [1]; 846, [2]; 215, [1]; 136, [32]; [20] pages. 4to, 226x158 mm, contemporary brown morocco gilt with triple-fillet panel enclosing large ornamental centerpiece on covers and flat spine elaborately and densely tooled to fanfare design; opening leaves heavily foxed, scattered marginal foxing elsewhere, partly repaired wormtrails in latter part of volume causing occasional slight text loss, old inscriptions on title, endpapers sympathetically renewed; gilt edges. Armorial bookplate of George Gostling. [Geneva]: Paulus Stephanus, 1602
contemporary fanfare binding on a later edition of Canter's Euripides, originally published in 1571, "the first to pay particular attention to responsion and its role in emendation" (Reynolds & Wilson). This copy is the issue including notes by Brodeau et al. and an index. Hoffmann II, 69; Renouard (Estienne) I, 196; Reynolds & Wilson, page 179; not in Schreiber.
