George Stewart, ed. SELECTIORES AESOPI PHRYGIS FABULAE, ET LUCIANI SAMOSATENSIS DIALOGI. ISOCRATIS ORATIONES DUAE, AD DEMONICUM & NICOCLEM. CEBETIS THEBANI TABULA. GRAECE & LATINE. Edinburgh: In Aedibus Tho. Ruddimanni, Sumptibus Geo. Stewart, 1723. Full speckled calf, morocco label with gilt and raised bands on spine, all edges speckled, marbled endpapers. With Aesop's Fables, Lucian's Dialogues, Isocrates's Orations, and Cebetis Thebani Tabula. 8vo; a2 A-H4, A-2E4 2F2; iv, 64, 227 [1]pp. Text in Greek and Latin. With woodcut ornaments.

5 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Includes stories as well as works by famous ancient rhetoricians and philosophers in both Latin and Greek for use by Scottish students.

Boards with edgewear, corners bumped, long crease to front cover; spine with crease, two wormholes, and small loss at tail; cracking at hinges with separation from textblock and loose headband, yet binding still sturdy; endpapers with tiny loss, staining, manuscript and bookplate; light toning and foxing throughout with occasional minor soiling, H4 with tiny losses (insect damage?). A good copy of this interesting early schoolbook.