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THE ESTIENNES
H.
Estienne's Final
FOLIO
Text
Greek, Latin, & Impressive
Isocrates. [two
lines in Greek, then] Isocratis Orationes et epistolae cvm Latina interpretatione
Hier. VVolfij, ab ipso postremùm regognita. Henr. Steph. in Isocratem
Diatribæ VII: quarum van obseruationes Harpocrationis in eundem examinat.
Gorgiae et Aristidis quædam, eiusdem cum Isocraticis argumenti. Guil. Cantero
interprete. [Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1593. Folio. [fleuron]4*6**4a–z6aa–mm6nn4;
Aa–Ll6; A–C6D4; a
–d
4a.4b.6 (-b.6, blank); [14] ff., 427, [1 (blank)],
131, [1 (blank)], xxxiiii pp., [1 (blank)], [4] ff., 31, [1 (blank)] pp., [9]
ff. (without the final blank).
Click the images for enlargements. The texts of the orations and "letters" of the great Athenian orator (436–338 B.C.) are printed in double-column format, with the Greek presented in exquisite Greek type in the inner columns and the Latin translation in roman type in the outer ones. A version of the famous Estienne printer's device graces the title-page.
• Adams O219; Renouard (2nd ed.), Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, 155.1; Schreiber, Estienne, 225; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, I:181; Dibdin (4th ed.), An Introduction to . . . Greek and Latin Classics, II:126. 18th-century plain calf, recently rebacked; round spine, raised bands accented with gilt ruling. Gilt-tooled center devices in spine compartments. Two gilt-lettered spine labels. Title-page dust-soiled; a library's blind pressure-stamps; properly deaccessioned with no additional stamps. 
A covetable exemplar. (2129)
Cameo Binding — Plutarch editio princeps — H. Estienne Imprint Plutarchus. [Opera]. Variorum Plutarchi scriptorum tomus secundus. [Geneva: H. Estienne, 1572]. 8vo (17 cm, 6.75"). 683 pp., final blank.
Click the images for enlargement. 
editio princeps of Plutarch's complete works consisting of four parts in thirteen volumes (“Complete sets . . . are extremely uncommon, and one often sees the various parts being offered for sale separately,” Schreiber, p. 156). The present tome contains Latin translations of Plutarch's Moralia by Erasmus, Budé, Pirckheimer, Xylander, and Henri Estienne, inter alios, translated from the original Greek texts (vols. I–VI in the series) edited by Estienne. Printed by Estienne in Latin and Greek in roman and italic, it bears decorative headpieces and six-line floriated initials, a couple of factotum initials, and one letterpress diagram; letters and numbers are printed as sidenotes for paragraph reference.
Binding signed with the binder's initials “MR” on either side of the Duke's head on front cover and date 1583 blind-stamped and painted in black below.
Provenance: Stamp of the Bibliothek der Fürsten- und Landesschule zu Grimma.
Evidence of readership: Sparse underlining in light early ink (pp. 137–51) and stray pencil marks.
• De Bure 6079; Dibdin, II, 336 (“the most portable and convenient [edition]”); Hoffmann, III, 171; Moeckli 77; Renouard, 134, 2 (“supérieure aux [éditions] précédentes”); Schreiber, Estiennes, 179; Schweiger, I, 258 (“Erste u. schöne”); and Sandys, p. [105], who with Dibdin gives Paris as the printing place. On cameo bindings and for a similar example, see: C.J.H. Davenport, Cameo book-stamps, pp. 18–21. Pigskin of rear board with natural flaw patched at time of binding, foliate roll pattern not interrupted across this, extremities rubbed, spine worn, scattered stains. Clasps fully intact. Top edge of some leaves at beginning and especially at end waterstained and lightly deteriorated; small marginal inkblots to a handful of leaves and one narrow, light in-text smear. Old institutional stamp as above and a neat shelf mark to title-page. 
Clean, interesting copy. (29514)
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