Crossword-Solution: EDITIO 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

RUDDER Translator's Note My translation of the first Lazarillo follows Foulche Delbosc's edition, which attempts to restore the editio princeps but does not include the interpolations of the Alcala de Henares edition.

His secluded room I could picture to myself with a sense of certainty--the couch (a sofa by day), the cupboard, the writing-table with its student lamp, the litter of pamphlets and old quartos and octavos in tattered bindings, among which were scarce reprints of his beloved Charles Lamb, and perhaps--nay, surely--an _editio princeps_ of the “Essays.” The gentle Elia never had a gentler follower or a more loving disciple than Tom Folio.

Hill Burton, speaking of Kirkpatrick Sharpe, “he was not a black-letter man, or a tall copyist, or an uncut man, or a rough-edge man, or an early-English dramatist, or an Elzevirian, or a broadsider, or a pasquinader, or an old brown calf man, or a Grangerite, {1} or a tawny moroccoite, or a gilt topper, or a marbled insider, or an _editio princeps_ man.” These nicknames briefly dispose into categories a good many species of collectors.

This is the pseudonym of the late Octave Delepierre, who published with Gay, but not the Editio Princeps—which, if I remember rightly, contains much more matter.

The work was already partially known by quotations, the first Book had been attributed to Origen, and published in the editio princeps of his works.