Ἰλιάς … — Paris 1554

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Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάς. Homeri Ilias, id est, De rebus ad Troiam gestis. — Parisiis, M.D.LIIII. Apud Adr. Turnebum typographum Regium.

[Colophon:] Excudebatur Lutetiae Parisiorum M.D.LIII  III Cal. Iul.

[Paris, Turnèbe, 29 June 1554]

8vo (168 x 107 mm). α² A-Z a-l⁸ m⁶: (4), 554, (2) pages. A few errors in pagination. Basilisk device of the Royal Greek Printer (first used by Robert Estienne) with the motto below Βασιλεῖ τ᾿ἀγαθῷ κρατερῳ τ᾿αἰχμητῇ.

Marginal waterstaining to first quire, and faint waterstaining on a few leaves towards end. Four old annotations in the margin. Faint small marking of the indentations (see photo). Tiny wormhole in very lower blank margin of pages 463-479.

Contemporary calf, gilt ornamental centrepiece on both covers. Gilt egdes. Some minor restaurations to the binding. Ample margins (type area c. 126 x 54 mm).  – Adams H-775; Hoffmann III² 322.

„The first Parisian edition of the Iliad, which scholars of early Greek printed editions have long considered a milestone in Homeric scholarship, and have consequently accorded to Turnèbe the distinction of being the founder of Homeric textual criticism in France …“ (J. Lewis, Adrian Turnèbe … Genève 1998, p. 157f.)