JUSTIN (Saint). Touagiou Joustinou philosophoy kai martyros - Lot 263

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JUSTIN (Saint). Touagiou Joustinou philosophoy kai martyros - Lot 263
JUSTIN (Saint). Touagiou Joustinou philosophoy kai martyros [Works], Paris : Robert Estienne, 1551. In-folio of [8], 311, [4] p., full-page Greek text (first cast of the king's Greeks), mark of Robert Estienne (Schreiber B2), large lettering (some in grotesque style), woodcut bands. Full ivory vellum, handwritten title on the spine (contemporary binding).a very good copy, with large margins (upper spine cracked for 3 cm, not serious, trace of a stamp erasure on the title page). First edition of the works of Saint Justin. Superb printing using the so-called "King's Greek" typeface of Claude Garamond. Edition established according to a manuscript of the royal library. It gathers the two Apologies, the Dialogue with Tryphon and several other apocryphal treatises. According to Schreiber: "A most important contribution to the study of Christian antiquity, and the sensation which its publication created among the learned was still remembered by Henry Estienne over 40 years later, in the preface to his own edition of Pseudo-Justin's Letter to Diognetus (1592). Brunet, III, 623; Mortimer, French II, n° 335; Schreiber, 107; Graesse, III, 515
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