Demetrius of Phaleron, De Elocutione, in Greek

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Demetrius of Phaleron, De Elocutione, in Greek, ed. Petrus Victorius (Pietro Vettori). Pr. Guillaume Morel, ‘royal typographer for Greek texts’, Paris, December 1555. Bound with (2) select works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Greek, pr. Carolus Stephanus (Charles Estienne), Lyon, 1554, and (3), select works of Dionysius translated into Latin by Stanislaus Ilovius, with commentary by Ilovius and Franciscus Robortellus, pr. Robertus Stephanus (Robert Estienne), Lyon, 1556. With an introductory letter from the editor to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, dated 1552. Printed using a very beautiful Greek font. The displayed opening shows a ‘modern’ feature of this edition: the ‘apparatus’ listing alternative readings to the edited text, taken from an ‘ancient manuscript’. With the bookplate of Mahinda College, Galle, Ceylon. Owned by F. L. Woodward; presented to the University Library by his executors, September 1952. Cent Rare PA 3948 .D5 1555.