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EURIPIDES. Tragoediae septendecim. Greek text, edited by Marcus Musurus. [268]; [190] leaves. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 161x100 mm, contemporary limp vellum with remnants of thong ties, medieval manuscript vellum strips used as internal spine reinforcements; light marginal dampstaining toward end; cloth folding case. (Venice: Aldus, February 1503)
first edition in the original greek of the extant plays, with the exception of the 4 plays (Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, and Andromache) previously published circa 1495, and Electra, which first appeared in 1545; issue with preface on A1v and epigrams on A2r. Renouard, page 43(10); New UCLA 69; Hoffmann II, 68; Fletcher, In Praise of Aldus Manutius, page 51 ('not superseded until the eighteenth century').
