Plato

3 volumes in 2, folio (375 x 237mm.), parallel text in Greek and Latin, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, with blank leaf at end of part 1 and Aa1 in part 2, seventeenth-century annotations in French, Latin and Greek, seventeenth-century calf, spines gilt in compartments, occasional light browning or foxing, slight damp-staining towards end of first volume, bindings worn, covers detached

Presentation inscription recording gift from Pierre d'Hardivilliers (1579-1649, later the archbishop of Bourges) to G. Cuval, dated 1627, on detached flyleaf; Association of Convent Schools, bookplate

Renouard, Estienne 145/1

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Henri Estienne's magisterial edition of the works of Plato, with the Latin translation by the Protestant Jean de Serres (1540-1598), in which Estienne introduced a reference system for the text which is still in use today.