Aeschylus, Sophocles & Euripides. Tragoediæ selectæ, [Geneva], Huldrich Fugger for Henri Estienne, 1567.

Aeschylus, Sophocles & Euripides. Tragoediæ selectæ, 2 parts in 1, collation: [*]2, a-z, aa8; A-Z, 2A-Z, Aa-Nn8 Oo4 Pp2, Greek and Roman type, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut decorative initials, aa7&8 blank, water-stained at foot, mostly marginal, some spotting, or light foxing, lightly browned, new endpapers, later vellum, yapp edges, lacking ties, head of spine worn, 16mo (130 x 75mm.), [Geneva], Huldrich Fugger for Henri Estienne, 1567.

⁂ A charming pocket edition with eight tragedies. The texts are in Latin or Greek, with translations provided by Erasmus, Melanchthon, George Buchanan, Joachim Camerarius and G. Rottalerus. The four Euripides plays included represent the only tragedies by this playwright ever printed by Henri Estienne.

Literature: Adams A269; Renouard, Estienne, 130:5; Schreiber 169.