Hoi tes heroikes poieseos palaioi poietai pantes [grece]. Poetae Graeci veteres carminis heroici scriptores, 2 parts in 1 vol., double column, text in Latin and Greek, title in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking final blank, title soiled and laid down, light worming to lower margin of first few gathering, 4P7 with paper flaw affecting a few letters of text, ink ownership stamp, inscription and notes of John Wordsworth "New Coll. April 1863" to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, rebacked, later endpapers, rubbed, extremities chipped and worn, [Schreiber 289], folio, Geneva, sumptibus Caldorianae societatis, 1606.
⁂ First edition of the most extensive work of its time on classical, Alexandrian and Byzantine epics. "Although the colophon clearly attributes the printing of the volume to Pierre de la Roviere, this may have been executed at the Estienne Press, or, at least, with the Estienne typographical material" - Schreiber.
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