Sophocles. Tragoediae septem, collation: α-ω8, αα8 (fol. αα7 blank, fols. δ2 and δ4 respectively signed γ2 and 4γ), [201]ff., printer's device on title, blank space for capital with printed guide letter at beginning of each tragedy, a few finger-marks and insignificant stains, light spots to title, late 17th-century French red morocco, covers with gilt fillet border, spine with five small raised bands, inner dentelles, comb-marbled pastedowns, g.e., small stain to lower cover, upper joint cracked at extremities, upper corner slightly bumped, 8vo, 168 x 108mm., Paris, Simon de Colines, 1528. ⁂ The Chatsworth copy of the third edition overall of Sophocles and the first to be printed outside Italy. This copy, the issue without the final four-leaf quire signed ββ, containing the errata and Greek epigrams. The text follows the Aldine edition of 1502, imitating the Aldine also in the octavo format. The text of the tragedies was printed by Simon de Colines in the new Greek type believed to have been designed and cut by himself, known by Robert Proctor as the 'Sophocles type', and defined by Victor Scholderer as a 'superior cursive', modelled on the font designed by Zacharias Kallierges. It is the major work published by the refined printer Colines in this Greek type. The title bears his famous 'Tempus' device, cut for him by Geoffroy Tory. "In 1879 a catalogue of the books at Chatsworth was compiled by Sir J. P. Lacaita, the librarian, in four volumes [...] The library is rich in choice and early editions of the Greek and Latin Classics" (W. Y. Fletcher, English Book Collectors, London 1902, p. 365). Provenance: From the library of the Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth (see Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth. Volume III M to S, London 1879, p. 409, "small 8vo o.r. mor. g.e. A very fine copy"). Literature: Adams S 1440, Renouard Colines, pp. 128-129; Moreau-Renouard, III, n. 1609; Moreau III, n. 1609; Hoffmann III, 412; R. Proctor, The French Royal Greek Type and the Eton Chrysostom, in Bibliographical essays, pp. 92-93; Scholderer, Greek Printing Types, p. 9
Sophocles. Tragoediae septem, collation: α-ω8, αα8 (fol. αα7 blank, fols. δ2 and δ4 respectively signed γ2 and 4γ), [201]ff., printer's device on title, blank space for capital with printed guide letter at beginning of each tragedy, a few finger-marks and insignificant stains, light spots to title, late 17th-century French red morocco, covers with gilt fillet border, spine with five small raised bands, inner dentelles, comb-marbled pastedowns, g.e., small stain to lower cover, upper joint cracked at extremities, upper corner slightly bumped, 8vo, 168 x 108mm., Paris, Simon de Colines, 1528. ⁂ The Chatsworth copy of the third edition overall of Sophocles and the first to be printed outside Italy. This copy, the issue without the final four-leaf quire signed ββ, containing the errata and Greek epigrams. The text follows the Aldine edition of 1502, imitating the Aldine also in the octavo format. The text of the tragedies was printed by Simon de Colines in the new Greek type believed to have been designed and cut by himself, known by Robert Proctor as the 'Sophocles type', and defined by Victor Scholderer as a 'superior cursive', modelled on the font designed by Zacharias Kallierges. It is the major work published by the refined printer Colines in this Greek type. The title bears his famous 'Tempus' device, cut for him by Geoffroy Tory. "In 1879 a catalogue of the books at Chatsworth was compiled by Sir J. P. Lacaita, the librarian, in four volumes [...] The library is rich in choice and early editions of the Greek and Latin Classics" (W. Y. Fletcher, English Book Collectors, London 1902, p. 365). Provenance: From the library of the Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth (see Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth. Volume III M to S, London 1879, p. 409, "small 8vo o.r. mor. g.e. A very fine copy"). Literature: Adams S 1440, Renouard Colines, pp. 128-129; Moreau-Renouard, III, n. 1609; Moreau III, n. 1609; Hoffmann III, 412; R. Proctor, The French Royal Greek Type and the Eton Chrysostom, in Bibliographical essays, pp. 92-93; Scholderer, Greek Printing Types, p. 9
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