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SOPHOCLES. Tragoediae septem. Greek text. [196] leaves, including the 3 integral blanks and final leaf with Aldine device on verso; [tau]5.6 misbound inside [upsilon] 4.5. 8vo, 147x93 mm, 19th-century calf with large blind-stamped ornamental panel on covers, rebacked retaining original gilt-tooled backstrip; occasional marginal dampstaining and light soiling, small hole in title not affecting text, 2 old ownership inscriptions on colophon page, the earlier one erased leaving small hole affecting one letter on recto. (Venice: House of Aldus, August 1502)
first edition in the original greek of the extant plays of Sophocles, published without the commentary called for on the title. This was the first Greek classical text to appear in the Aldine portable format. Renouard, page 34(6); New UCLA 60; Hoffmann III, 411.
