Aristides, Orationes, Florence, Giunta, 1517, later red morocco gilt, Bentley-Chatsworth copy

Aelius Aristides

Λογοι. Orationes. (Florence: Filippo Giunta, 20 May 1517)

folio (283 x 184mm.), text in Greek, woodcut printer's device on final leaf (otherwise blank), red crushed morocco gilt in period style by Riviere, spine gilt with Devonshire monogram (of intertwined Ds) in compartments, gilt edges, spine lightly faded

EDITIO PRINCEPS of the orations of Aristides, printed with the Kallierges Venice typeface.

A manuscript note on the title-page indicates that this was once bound together with the Aldine edition of Isocrates.

LITERATURE

Edit16 2847

PROVENANCE

Richard Bentley (1662-1742), signature on flyleaf; Chatsworth, bookplate, sale of the property of the 10th Duke of Devonshire's Charitable Trust, Christie's, 30 September 1981, lot 27