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[ARISTOPHANES PLAYS], (245x338mm), [12], 571, [1 blank], [24] p.
Froben's first Greek edition of Aristophanes' plays, with extensive comment, edited by the Bohemian scholar Sigismundus Gelenius, based on the Aldine princeps edition. It even includes the original preface by Marcus Musurus, as Gelenius had been a pupil of Mursus.
Soft vellum binding, manuscript spine title, contemporary binding. Spine and boards browned and soiled. Ownership inscription cut out at foot of title page. Scattered foxing, numerous contemporary annotations in pen and pencil.
Decorated with woodcut initials and headpieces. Froben's fine printer's device, designed by the famous Hans Holbein on the verso of the colophon.
The edition contains Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies: Wealth, The Clouds, The Frogs, The Knights, The Acharnians, The Wasps, The Birds, Peace, The Assemblywomen, Thesmophoriazusae and Lysistrata.
The work was published on Johann Froben's press by his successors. Froben was one of the leading figures in Basel printing in the first half of the 16th century, and Erasmus' main printer. He was also known for the beauty of his Greek typefaces, of which this work is a perfect example, using two different fonts, for the scholia and the Aristophanes text within.
Michel Revon bookplate pasted on the first fly leaf.
Pleasant copy with wide margins.
USTC 612856; VD16 A-3268; Ebert, 1086.