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[ESTIENNE (Henri)]. [First title in Greek] // Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum veterum, in septem libros divisum […]. S. l., Henricus Stephanus [Geneva, Henri Estienne], 1566. Small quarto, ivory vellum, plain spine with decoration (17th-century binding). [IV] + 539 + [XXXV] pp. Text printed in Greek. From the libraries of William Cholmondeley (1800–1884), with a handwritten bookplate on the flyleaf and annotations at the bottom of the page (translations of passages into French) & Lucien Layus (1858–1915), with his bookseller’s label (he presented this book at the 1900 World’s Fair: “16th century. Document for the History of the Book”). Title page dated 1563; old handwritten bookplate scraped off the title page; wormholes on several leaves skillfully restored; a few pencil annotations in the text. “A fine edition featuring a fully revised text.” (Brunet, I, 308); “A highly scholarly volume” (Renouard, 126).
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