Demetrius of Phaleron, De Elocutione, in Greek, ed. by Petrus Victorius (Pietro Vettori)

Printed at Paris by Guillaume Morel, ‘royal typographer for Greek texts’, December 1555.  Bound with (2) select works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Greek, printed at Leiden by Carolus Stephanus, 1554, and (3), select works of Dionysius translated into Latin by Stanislaus Ilovius, with commentary by Ilovius and Franciscus Robortellus, printed at Leiden by Robertus Stephanus, 1556.

With an introductory letter from the editor to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, dated 1552.  Printed using a very beautiful Greek font.  The displayed pages show a ‘modern’ feature of this edition:  the ‘apparatus’ listing alternative readings to the edited text, taken from an ‘ancient manuscript’.

Cent Rare PA 3948. D5 1555.  With the bookplate of Malmida College, Palle, Ceylon.  Owned by the British orientalist F. L. Woodward, who retired to northern Tasmania; presented to the University Library by his executors in September 1952.