Budé, Commentarii linguae Graecae, Paris, 1529, later half calf

Property from the Spyros Loverdos collection

Guillaume Budé

Commentarii linguae graecae. Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, September 1529

folio (328 x 218mm.), title printed in red and black within woodcut border and with Ascensius's printer's device of a print shop, woodcut criblé initials, without final blank leaf, early nineteenth-century calf-backed boards, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece, occasional light staining at foredge, lower joint cracked

FIRST EDITION, and a large crisp copy of Budé's magisterial work on Greek prose, with a few neat early annotations. Budé arranged his entries thematically rather than alphabetically.

LITERATURE

PMM 60; Renouard, Ascensius II, 239; USTC 146015

PROVENANCE

Mequignon junior, Paris, bookseller's label