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APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. Argonautica, 1496. Peter Harrington Rare Books.

You can view this item on our website here: http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/rare... Presented by Adam Douglas, Senior Rare Books Specialist at Peter Harrington. Median quarto (232 164 mm). Bound in the third quarter of the 19th century by Francis Bedford (his name in gilt at the foot of the front turn-in) in reddish-brown crushed goatskin, spine divided in six compartments by raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments, the others with gilt devices, sides with frames formed of gilt and thick-and-thin blind rules, gilt centrepieces, turn-ins ruled in gilt and in blind, gilt edges (spine a little faded; extremities rubbed). Housed in a burgundy flat-back cloth box. 172 leaves, including the final blank. Greek types 114 (two sets of capitals designed by Laskaris, one large for headings and initials letters, one small for the text). Commentary (10–33 lines) in miniscule surrounding text (3–31 lines) in majuscule. Greek marginalia in an early hand in six places; the publication date added in arabic numerals in ink at the foot of the final text leaf; an excellent copy, well-margined, clean and fresh. Editio princeps. A remarkable presentation copy, inscribed on the verso of the final blank from the Greek scholar Robert Pember to his friend and student Roger Ascham: “R. Pemberi hunc librum dono dedit Rogero Aschamo testi magistro Fitzerbert et multis aliis.” The presentation inscription brings together three of the outstanding figures in the early years of Greek scholarship in Tudor...Read More http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/rare... APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. Argonautica, 1496. Peter Harrington Rare Books.