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Parma, in the royal palace, 1796. In the 4th century. Numerous corrections to the text, few halos, period binding in brown calfskin, fillet frames on the plates, spine with four compartments with black and red leather inserts with gold titles, some stains and small losses. On the back plate front signature of "Francesco Testa Vicentino".
Specialist Notes
Original edition of Sophoclean masterpiece in exemplar used by Luigi Lamberti, translator of the work, for the revision of the text. On the endpaper there is the annotation in an ancient hand "The corrections are in the handwriting of Lamberti". Printed dedication to Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover, Duke of Sussex. A Greek epigram by Francesco Fontana precedes with the Italian version at the bottom. Brooks, n. 634.
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