Theocritus, Opera, Rome, Callierges, 1516, eighteenth-century red morocco

THEOCRITES

Ειδυλλια, εξ και τριακοντα. Του αυτου επιγραμματα εννεα και δεκα. Rome: Zacharias Callierges and Cornelio Benigno, (15 January 1516)

2 parts in one volume, 8vo (153 x 100mm.), woodcut device on title-page and a different one on final verso, text in Greek, some pages with the text in woodcut surrounds, eighteenth-century red morocco, gilt fillet border, flat spine gilt, gilt edges, modern red morocco-backed folding box, extremities slightly rubbed

LITERATURE:

Edit16 32693

PROVENANCE:

W.J. Dixon, signature at head of title-page; Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1867-1950, Boston bookdealer), bookplate