375. Plato. Opera quae extant omnia, 3 vol. in 2 (vol.1 & 3 bound in 1), first complete edition , text in Greek and Latin, double-column, title with large woodcut device depicting St. Paul knneling beneath an olive tree and with early and 20th century ink ownership inscriptions, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, occasional marginal water-staining, a few ff. very lighty browned, but generally a clean copy with good wide margins, bookplate of J.Wahlen, contemporary vellum over wooden boards, yapp edges, soiled, [Renouard, Estienne I, p.145; Adams 61764], folio, Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1578.
est. £3500 – £4000
A very good copy of the editio princeps , edited by one of the great scholars of the Renaissance.