FOULIS PRESS -- AESCHYLUS . Opera , in Greek. Glasgow: Andreas Foulis, 1795. 2º (379 x 226mm).Half-title. (Light foxing at beginning and end.) Contemporary dark blue English straight-grained morocco, spine ruled in gilt in compartments, blindstamped border on spine with, at centre, the arms of William Wyndham Grenville, gilt greek key turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance : William Wyndham Grenville (1759-1834, Prime Minister 1806-07; his gilt arms as Chancellor of Oxford) – Arthur Cole (barrister, initials dated 1945) – John Sparrow (1906-1992, Warden of All Souls; book-label and 2 ALSs from Arthur Cole, both dated October 1947, offering Sparrow either this book or the Foulis Homer).
FOULIS PRESS -- AESCHYLUS . Opera , in Greek. Glasgow: Andreas Foulis, 1795. 2º (379 x 226mm).Half-title. (Light foxing at beginning and end.) Contemporary dark blue English straight-grained morocco, spine ruled in gilt in compartments, blindstamped border on spine with, at centre, the arms of William Wyndham Grenville, gilt greek key turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance : William Wyndham Grenville (1759-1834, Prime Minister 1806-07; his gilt arms as Chancellor of Oxford) – Arthur Cole (barrister, initials dated 1945) – John Sparrow (1906-1992, Warden of All Souls; book-label and 2 ALSs from Arthur Cole, both dated October 1947, offering Sparrow either this book or the Foulis Homer). FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM GRENVILLE, Prime Minister 1806-1807 and later Chancellor of Oxford. One of 63 copies of this masterpiece of the Foulis Press, printed in Wilson’s Greek double pica and ranking with the press’s Homer as a monument of Greek printing. This work had a chequered history. Porson was supposed to be preparing an edition, as early as 1783, but for various reasons the project was shelved. He returned to the Aeschylus ten years later and agreed with Foulis that an octavo edition should be printed. But the gap still remained and Foulis printed the present edition without notes or Porson's scholia, with an eye to the de luxe market.
FOULIS PRESS -- AESCHYLUS . Opera , in Greek. Glasgow: Andreas Foulis, 1795. 2º (379 x 226mm).Half-title. (Light foxing at beginning and end.) Contemporary dark blue English straight-grained morocco, spine ruled in gilt in compartments, blindstamped border on spine with, at centre, the arms of William Wyndham Grenville, gilt greek key turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance : William Wyndham Grenville (1759-1834, Prime Minister 1806-07; his gilt arms as Chancellor of Oxford) – Arthur Cole (barrister, initials dated 1945) – John Sparrow (1906-1992, Warden of All Souls; book-label and 2 ALSs from Arthur Cole, both dated October 1947, offering Sparrow either this book or the Foulis Homer).
FOULIS PRESS -- AESCHYLUS . Opera , in Greek. Glasgow: Andreas Foulis, 1795. 2º (379 x 226mm).Half-title. (Light foxing at beginning and end.) Contemporary dark blue English straight-grained morocco, spine ruled in gilt in compartments, blindstamped border on spine with, at centre, the arms of William Wyndham Grenville, gilt greek key turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance : William Wyndham Grenville (1759-1834, Prime Minister 1806-07; his gilt arms as Chancellor of Oxford) – Arthur Cole (barrister, initials dated 1945) – John Sparrow (1906-1992, Warden of All Souls; book-label and 2 ALSs from Arthur Cole, both dated October 1947, offering Sparrow either this book or the Foulis Homer). FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM GRENVILLE, Prime Minister 1806-1807 and later Chancellor of Oxford. One of 63 copies of this masterpiece of the Foulis Press, printed in Wilson’s Greek double pica and ranking with the press’s Homer as a monument of Greek printing. This work had a chequered history. Porson was supposed to be preparing an edition, as early as 1783, but for various reasons the project was shelved. He returned to the Aeschylus ten years later and agreed with Foulis that an octavo edition should be printed. But the gap still remained and Foulis printed the present edition without notes or Porson's scholia, with an eye to the de luxe market.
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