Two volumes bound as one, 336 leaves + 142 leaves, 16mo, olive tree printer's device on both title pages, bound in contemporary vellum with elaborate gilt tooling, spine with gilt tooling and titled in mss, Provenance: two early ownership signatures on the first title page, paper clean and bright, hinges sprung but firm and strong, very good condition, Robert Stephani Estienne, Paris, 1547. * Listed in Adams C1915/1916. Neither item appears in the Schreiber catalogue. Latin and Greek text. Additional Provenance: from the information on the title page, we can conclude that the owner was William S. Dean, who attended Trinity College in the University of Cambridge in 1842. This can be none other than William Smith Dean, who was admitted as a sizar to Trinity College, matriculating in Michaelmas 1839. His tutor was a “Mr Perry,” but little else appears to be known of him. At the top margin of the titlepage, there is the early ownership inscription “Fran: Hatcherus / 1630”, which almost certainly stands for Franciscus Hatcherus, a Latinization of the English name Francis Hatcher. This is likely the early seventeenth-century lawyer Francis Hatcher of Sutterton, Lincolnshire, who was a member of Gray’s Inn, one of the Inns of Court in London. He was godson to the famous jurist and philosopher Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561-1626). Bacon left him one hundred pounds in his will. (CLASSICS/140)