Greek language.- Suidas. [Lexicon], edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas, collation: a?-z?, &?, A?-Z?, &?, AA ??8, double column, Greek type, title with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, lacking final f. with woodcut printer's device verso, otherwise blank, title and next f. holed, with loss of several letters in both instances, mostly marginal water-staining at head, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf, upper cover with later gilt initial G and the lower with initial P, rebacked in 20th century calf in compartments with red morocco label, corners repaired, contemporary covers rubbed and scuffed, a wide-margined copy, folio (323 x 207mm.), [Venice], [House of Aldus & Andrea Torresani], [February, 1514].

⁂ The Prousteau-Camden-Wordsworth copy of the second Aldine edition of this thesaurus of the Greek language.

Provenance: 'hic lib. fuit Guil. Prousteau antecesor. Aurel. Nunc est usus studios o[mn]ium'. Guillaume Prousteau (1628-1715) professor of law, dean of the university at Orléans, and founder of an eponymous public library in the same city (ink inscription to upper margin of a?¹); Earl of Camden (engraved armorial bookplate); 'C.W. Wordsworth, Trinity College, Cambridge [and separately] Jan.ry. 1903' (ink inscription to front free endpaper).

Literature: Adams S2062; Ahmanson-Murphy 119; Renouard 70:11; EDIT 16 CNCE 37492.