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THEOCRITUS. Eidyllia. Part 2 (of 2): Scholia. Greek text. Kallierges woodcut device on last page. [116] leaves. Ruled in red throughout. 8vo, later 18th-century red straight-grain morocco gilt with floral border on covers, spine darkened, deep blue silk doublures and endleaves; scattered light marginal foxing and smudges; gilt edges. Bookplates of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823) and Douglas Maxwell Moffat. (Rome: Zaccharias Kallierges for Cornelio Benigno, January 1516)
first edition of the scholia, forming the second part of the fourth edition in the original Greek of the Idylls of Theocritus. Adams T460; Harvard/Mortimer 497; Hoffmann III, 474.
