[Rarebooks] FS: Foulis Press' large format Aeschylus. Glasgow: 1746

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(FOULIS PRESS) Aeschylus. [Title in Greek & Latin] TRAGODIAE Quae Extant Septum. Cum Lectionibus Variantibus. Glasgow: In Aedibus Academicis Excudebat Robertus Foulis. 1746. 4to. x,321,(1)pp. Text entirely in Greek. Orig. calf, nicely rebacked. With a gilt stamped spine. Outer corners of covers worn down. With the bookplate of Percy Stafford Allen, classics scholar and President of Corpus Christi College Oxford 1924-1933, and a manuscript note from 1753 that this copy was acquired from the sale of the Bibliotheca Heathiana, lot 3516.                 $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
See Gaskell FOULIS PRESS # 71. There are 4 issues of this book; ours is the one volume Greek text only, in the largest format, "Foolscap 4to." 

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