Crito

by Plato

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PLATO. Crito. xxxvi, 2 pp. 8vo., bound in full marbled paper, title printed on a black letterpress label on spine. Uncut, unopened. Paris: The Pleiad, 1926.One of 475 copies printed for the Pleiad under the supervision of Frederic Warde. According to the colophon, this book marks the first use of Arrighi Vicenza type, but the British Library exhibition catalogue notes that this type was first used in the imprint and colophon of

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