Lot 06222

Σοφοκλής – Sophocles, Henri Estienne, Joachim Camerarius, “Σοφοκλέους Αι Επτά Τραγωδίαι. Sophoclis Tragoediae Septem… Ioachimi Cameranij, necnon Henrici Stephani annotationes…, Paulus Stephanus (Paul Estienne), Geneva,1603. 4to, pp.[6], 788, [16], 51, 202, [3]. Text in Greek, translation & comments in Latin. Large printer’s device on title page, woodcut initials and chapter ornaments. Contemporary full leather, rubbed & worn, cracked joints and chipped part of spine. Worm-holes at ~70 sheets. This edition, together with that of Euripides (1602) are considered to be the major printing achievements of Paul Stephanos. It is not a reprint of the 1568 edition and is an improved version with commentaries by Camerarius, comprising unpublished notes by Henry Stephanos and accompanied by a Latin translation in full of all seven tragedies by Vitus Winsemius (Veit Oertel).