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Italian 16th Century, Plutarch (author), and anonymous authors after Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum

Epistole Phalaridis Noviter Impresse / The Letters of Phalaris, 1505

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Medium

Text occupies pp. 1-87 of the Sammelband. Wood-engraved title border; two woodcut initials (pp. 9 and 24); three wood-engraved initials (pp. 35, 44, and 51)

Dimensions

page size: 15.4 x 10 cm (6 1/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
overall: 21.9 x 15.1 cm (8 5/8 x 5 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 281

Accession Number

2002.60.1.a

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (artist)

Plutarch (author) Greek, c. 45 - c. 125

Phalaris (author) Greek, -570 - -554

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Inscription

title page lower right in graphite: Ebert 16665; lower center: AC

Provenance

Bibliotheca Laneana, 1757; Dr. Liebenall, 1838; Herimanni; Josephus Salzbergius; Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., London; Anonymous gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Quaritch Ltd., Bernard