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EURIPIDES. Tragoediae XIX. Greek text, edited by Willem Canter. [32], 809, [38] pages, including blanks e7-8. 16mo, 119x73 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with Apostle roll on covers, brass catches and clasps; occasional toning. Contemporary signature of Martin Neiffert on title; 19th-century bookplate of Justin Harvey Smith, with an inscription to him from L. P. Rosenthal of Munich dated 1878; 20th-century bookplate of H. Marion Soliday. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1571
first plantin edition, and the first edited by the Dutch scholar Willem Canter (1542-75). 'Canter's edition dramatically influenced the course of Euripidean criticism in that he was the first to distinguish and mark the metrical responsions of the choruses, which had been printed in haphazard fashion in all previous editions'--E. K. Schreiber, Catalogue 37, item 63.
