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RHETORES GRAECI -- Rhetores in hoc volumine habentur hi. Aphthonii Sophistae progymnasmata . Venice: Aldus Manutius November 1508. Volume I only (of 2). Royal 4º (283 x 178mm). Woodcut device on title. (Title rather soiled with lower margin frayed, some worming at beginning and end, affecting text very slightly at beginning, some damp and waterstaining, worse at beginning and end, lower fore-corners of *7-8 crudely repaired.) Modern half calf. Provenance : some early marginalia in Greek in two hands.
RHETORES GRAECI -- Rhetores in hoc volumine habentur hi. Aphthonii Sophistae progymnasmata . Venice: Aldus Manutius November 1508. Volume I only (of 2). Royal 4º (283 x 178mm). Woodcut device on title. (Title rather soiled with lower margin frayed, some worming at beginning and end, affecting text very slightly at beginning, some damp and waterstaining, worse at beginning and end, lower fore-corners of *7-8 crudely repaired.) Modern half calf. Provenance : some early marginalia in Greek in two hands. EDITIO PRINCEPS of this highly important collection of Greek texts on the theory of oratory. This work includes the two major omissions from the Aldine Aristotle of 1495-98, the Poetics and Rhetoric , and rhetorical treatises by Aphthonius, Hermogenes, Sopater, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Demetrius of Phalerum, and Menander. Except for Demosthenes and Isocrates, Aldus published the theoretical Greek texts well before the actual orations: Aeschines, Lysias and the remaining texts were published in 3 volumes in 1513. Part II of this edition was published six months after the first and the two volumes are rarely found together. Renouard considered this edition the most 'truly precious' of all the Aldine imprints for its combination of beauty of execution and rarity. Adams R-447; Ahmanson-Murphy 83; Brunet IV, 1265; Hoffmann I, 279 and III, 340; Renouard 54.4.