OMNIA D. PLATONIS OPERA

Book Description

1571. PLATO. OMNIA D. PLATONIS OPERA tralatione Marsilii Ficini, & ad Graecum codicem accurata castigatione. Quae recenti hac editione nostra multo quam antea ornatiora, & locupletiora sunt facta, opera, & diligentia Jacobi Tapia Aldana... Venetiis: Apvd Hieronymvm Scotvm, 1571. Publisher's colophon on last page is dated 1570. Folio. 30.5 cm. [40],548 pp. Text is printed in double columns. It is complete despite two conjugate leaves (E1 & E8) which are bound out of order and several errors in pagination. Early ink ownership (1695) on t.p. and notes in margins, and with a small ink stamp at bottom edge of t.p. Text leaves are lightly toned, with some light dampstaining near the end of the volume. Some ink staining to top- and fore-edge of the bookblock, near the center, which does not affect the text. The first leaf (the title-page) and its conjugate have paper reinforcment at the crease; in addition, the title-page has a small patch of paper reinforcement on verso at fore-edge. Small lacuna in last leaf which has been very carefully repaired, with a couple of letters neatly supplied by hand. Bound in early vellum, which is lightly spotted and soiled, which has been partially rebacked with great skill; the spine has traces of early ink labelling.

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