Isocrates, Scripta omnia, Basel, 1558, contemporary pigskin

Property from the Loverdos Collection

Isocrates

Απαντα... Scripta, quae nunc extant, omnia [edited by Hieronymus Wolf]. Basel: Johann Oporinus, (March 1558)

8vo (185 x 120mm.), parallel text in Greek and Latin, woodcut initials, woodcut horoscope on p.1020, contemporary (Wittenberg?) stamped pigskin over wooden boards, central panel composed of a small acorn tool with an outer border of medallion portraits of Erasmus, Luther and Melanchthon, initials IVB and date 1561 stamped on upper cover, two clasps, a few wormholes in binding

Hieronymus Wolf (1516-1580) was the pre-eminent scholar of the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates, and this is one of several editions printed by Oporinus in Basel.

LITERATURE

VD16 I 400

PROVENANCE

"Anno [1]569 Ich [--]sch der Zeit", inscription on inside front cover