Anacreon (c. 560-475 BC).

4to (164 x 110mm.), [8], 110, [2 (blank)] pp., text in Greek, illustration: woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initial and headpiece, binding: contemporary vellum, title-leaf slightly soiled, some leaves trimmed at head and foot (affecting headlines and signatures), a few small stains in quire M, spine torn at foot

IA 105.074; Renouard, Estienne, p.115; Schreiber 139

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editio princeps of the Odes of Anacreon, and the first work published by Henri Estienne the younger. The manuscript of these odes was in the possession of an English Catholic in Louvain, which Estienne identified as being by Anacreon. However, in his edition, he omitted a poem at the beginning which implied that the poems following were all in the style of Anacreon; he thus presented them as the lost work of Anacreon himself.