Greek text based on the version of Joannes Stobaeus, edited with an English translation by Betty Radice.

First title in Greek characters.

Title in rust and black enclosed within ornamental border.

"Note on the text and on the Greek characters": (p. [75]-[88]) signed: Giovanni Mardersteig.

COLOPHON: The sayings of the seven sages edited with an English version by Betty Radice, have been set in Griffo type; the Greek letter-forms used for the Delphic inscriptions and for the names of the sages on the half titles have been derived from an Athenian epigraph of the fifth century B.C. The edition has been printed on Magnani hand-made paper in 160 copies, ten of which are ad personam and one hundred and fifty numbered Officina Bodoni Verona April MCMLXXVI.

This is No. 43.

In modern quarter-vellum with spine title in gold.

In slipcase.