CORNELIUS NEPOS

One of the first stereotype editions by Pierre Didot, printed at the Louvre, in the premises of the former royal printing house. Copy on laid paper.
Contemporary full green Russia leather binding. Smooth spine with 4 fleurons and fillets. Green morocco title-label. Greek key border on boards. Interior frieze. Lacking at head. Rubbing. Handsome copy, very fresh.
A tear at head of spine.

New illustrated edition with two plates hors-texte.
Contemporary full glazed hazelnut calf binding, smooth spine uniformly lightened and decorated with gilt roulettes, interlacing patterns and fillets, wide blind dentelle framing the boards surrounded by gilt fillets and interlacing patterns, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt striations on the headcaps, triple gilt fillets and stamps surrounding the pastedowns, all edges gilt. Binding signed Purgold.
Scattered foxing.
Handsome copy pleasingly bound in a signed contemporary binding.