[In beautiful blindstamped binding] Euripidou Tragodiai ith'. Euripidis Tragoediae XIX

In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio hactenus ignorata nunc primum proditur: opera Gulielmi Canteri Ultraiectini. Antwerp, Christoffel Plantijn, 1571, text in Greek, (32),809,(39) p., with woodcut printer's mark, finely bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin [see description below], 16mo.

Endpaper and title page with various old owner's names/annotations, the title and p. 129 also with library stamp; contents here and there slightly stained/sunned or with old annotations in margins; endpapers tender from boards, binding slightly stained and with several other small defects. The scarce first printing of this edition edited by Willem Canter (1542-1575). On Canter, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Canter. The text is printed in a beautiful small type. Copy in a special binding, with a panel on the front board monogrammed "S.R." with the figure of Justitia and the text "Iusticiae quisqs pictura lumine cernis dic deus est iustus iustaq facta probat." On the back board a panel with the same monogram and the figure of Fortuna above the text "Fortuna vitrea est cum maxime splendet frang[itur]" ("Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken", a quote from Publius Syrus). Both panels are highly detailed and extraordinarily well preserved, a fine example of the art of Renaissance book binding.