Regular exhibitor Charlie Unsworth will be attending the Summer Fair, he will have the following item for sale:
1560 Estienne edition of Pindar, formerly owned by the poet and dramatist John Gay.
Title: Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia: Cæterorum octo lyricorum carmina, Alcæi, Sapphus, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Bacchylidis, Simonidis, Alcmanis, nonnulla etiam aliorum, Omnia Graece & Latine […]
Published: [Geneva]: Excudebat Henr. Stephanus, illustris uiri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus. Date: 1560 Price: £900.00
First edition thus. 2 parts in 1, 24mo., pp. 576; 432. Greek and Latin. Each part with its own title-page, each with woodcut printer’s device. The titlepage of vol. II. reads: Carminum poetarum novem, lyricæ poeseo os principu u, fragmenta. First title-page a little grubby, very occasional underlining, one tiny note. Sporadic faint dampstain radiating from upper fore-edge corner. Later brown calf neatly rebacked retaining label, edges sprinkled red. A little rubbed, some chips to fore-edge, ffep half excised, endpapers toned at edges, inner hinges neatly repaired, very good.
