Eschyle - Æschyli tragœdiæ VII - 1557

Aeschylus’ Seven Tragedies VII. Which, as all are published far more critically than before, one of them, which before was mutilated and shortened, now appears complete.
[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1557. — Folio, 250 x 180: collated and well complete with (4 pages), 138 pp., pp. *-**, pp. 139-395, (verso blank). Soft parchment, traces of bindings, smooth spine (binding of the period of which one of the cords is broken).
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF AESCHYLUS’ SEVEN TRAGEDIES, printed entirely with the so-called “King’s Greek” letters engraved by Claude Garamond and published under the care of the Florentine humanist and philologist Pietro Vettori (1499-1585) and the humanist-printer Henri Estienne.
First complete edition of Aeschylus’ works in Greek, and the princeps complete edition of Agamemnon whose text had hitherto been amputated by two thirds. The incomplete editions by Alde, Robortel, and Turnèbe were amended by Henri II Estienne (1531-1598) thanks to verses found in the Laurentian codex F. of the library of Pope Paul II (Alexander Farnese) by the philologist-he‍llenist Pietro Vettori (1499-1585) who completed them with the aid of other manuscripts with the cooperation of his pupils Bartolomeo Barbadoro and Girolamo Maeus.
The collection includes the famous tragedies of Aeschylus: The Suppliants, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, as well as the Oresteia, the famous trilogy consisting of Agamemnon, the Choephori (lacuna), and the Eumenides. Printing in the King’s Greek typeface, featuring two sizes of typographic fonts.
Ex libr. Ms. J. Vassanius, pupil of Scaliger in Geneva, then pastor at Château du Loir until 1612
Ex libr. Ms. Chardon de la Rochette (1753-1812) philologist and bibliographer.