Aeschylus, Tragoedia Septem-Thebana, Paris, 1585, later navy morocco gilt, Syston Park copy

Books from the Library of the Earls of Haddington, lots 105-131

AESCHYLUS

Tragoedia Septem-Thebana [with Latin translation by Florent Chrestien]. Paris: Fédéric Morel, 1585

2 parts (one Greek, one Latin), 4to (216 x 165mm.), woodcut device on title-pages and a different device at end of each part, woodcut initials and headpieces, eighteenth-century navy morocco gilt with title lettered on upper cover, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-pieces, gilt edges, yellow watered silk endleaves

A note on the flyleaf states that this is the first published Latin translation of any of the plays of Aeschylus.

LITERATURE:

USTC 171844 & 170795

PROVENANCE:

Sir John Hayford Thorold, Syston Park bookplate, sale, Sotheby's, 12 December 1884, lot 34, 15s