Isocrates, Isocrates nuper accurate recognitus et auctus, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Heirs of Torresano, 1534, early nineteenth-century brown morocco

ISOCRATES. Isocrates nuper accurate recognitus et auctus. Isocrates. Isokrátes. Alkidámas. Gorgías. Aristeídes. 'Arpokrátion. Alcidamas. Gorgias. Aristides. Harpocration [Greek]. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, July 1534

SECOND ALDINE EDITION.

Folio (299 x 200 mm). Roman and Greek type, 54 lines plus headline. Collation: A-K⁸ L⁴ M-P⁸ (K8 a blank): 116 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, spiral in early ink to upper corner of K5. (Restoration to lower corners of P7-8 scattered foxing, a few stray stains.)

Binding: Early nineteenth-century dark brown morocco (310 x 217 mm), covers with gilt Greek key border around sides, spine with raised bands in six compartments, second and third gilt-lettered, others with gilt floriate ovals, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. (Somewhat worn and scuffed.)

Provenance: Unidentified owner(s), inscriptions, “from Thorpe's cat. 27” and “Dr. Balphy's [Falphy's?] writing” — George Domvile Wheeler (1815-1890), bookplate to pastedown — Howard Granville Hanrott, bookplate to pastedown — Louis Thompson Rowe (1855-1927), bookplate to pastedown — Arthur Frederick Andrew Cole (1883-1968), bookplate to pastedown. Acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1983. References: UCLA 271; Renouard 111/4; Edit16 27219; USTC 836615