Budé (Guillaume) Commentarii linguae Graecae, Greek & Latin text, title with woodcut printer's device (text & device cut round and mounted on blank leaf), woodcut pictorial initials, a2 with contemporary ink annotation and inscription torn away from fore-margin not affecting text, some browning and water-staining, hole to 3C1 of Index with loss of a few letters/numbers, colophon leaf creased, eighteenth century sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, a little rubbed and scuffed, cracks to joints, slight wear to spine ends, folio, Paris, Robert Etienne, 1548.
⁂ Definitive edition of Budés authoritative work on the Greek language, printed in Garamond's 'grec du Roi'.
Provenance: Macclesfield copy with small embossed stamp to title and following couple of leaves and North Library bookplate
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