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1495259147Venice: Aldus Manutius 1495. First Aldine edition and the first complete edition of Theocritus printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time; the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works enumerated below; and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Title in Greek and Roman introduction by Aldus in Latin; text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. 140 leaves. 1 vols. Folio 315 x 210 mm. Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tooling in the rest; title soiled and shaved along fore-edge extensive neatly penned marginalia in Greek and Latin in two different hands; gilt edges gauffered to all-over pattern of intersecting diagonal fillets and fleurons. Bookplate of St. Benedict's Abbey Fort Augustus Scotland. First Aldine edition and the first complete edition of Theocritus printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time; the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works enumerated below; and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Title in Greek and Roman introduction by Aldus in Latin; text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. 140 leaves. 1 vols. Folio 315 x 210 mm. First Aldine and first complete edition of the Idylls of Theocritus of which 12 appear here for the first time also including the first edition in the original Greek of Hesiod's Theogony and Shield of Hercules and the elegies of Theognis as well as the second edition of Hesiod's Works and Days which were first printed in Milan circa 1480. This is the first setting of gatherings zeta.F and theta.G with the text uncorrected.<br /> <br /> Not only is this copy beautifully colored in a contemporary hand none such appear in ABPC for the last 35 years and we are unable to find any institutional copies with coloring but the copy is notable as well for profuse neat contemporary marginalia mostly in Latin but often in Greek which fill the book.<br /> <br /> The marginal annotations are particularly extensive in the first two Idylls where typically underscored words are explained in the margins; occasionally an interlinear Latin word is provided beneath the Greek in an even smaller but always clear hand. The notes themselves are mostly philological in scope with notations on unusual Doric Theocritus's dialect forms e.g. the Doric form for the preposition 'πpòs' being 'πotì' the identification of parts of speech and grammatical forms poetic usage etc. Especially notable too are frequent comparisons and cross references to passages from Vergil's Eclogues. In the famous Idyll 2 "Pharmaceutria" where a spurned maiden utters incantations to bring her man back home there now seem to be two distinct hands and the notes are particularly frequent and copious. The first note reads: "Unde sumpta est Verg. Pharmaceutria" whence Vergil got his Pharmaceutria.<br /> <br /> A beautiful copy of a rare and important book with fascinating early annotations. Renouard page 53; New UCLA 7; Hoffmann III 473-74; HC 15477; BMC V 554-55; Goff T144; ISTC it00144000 Aldus Manutius unknown
149574RD10G5BNTUVenice: Aldus Manutius 1495. Modern red morocco sewn on 5 supports gold- and blind-blocked red sprinkled edges. Folio. With 8 fine woodcut headpieces 2 by the famous Poliphilus master plus 29 repeats and 23 woodcut outline interlaced initials 3 series: 3-line 5-line and 7-line plus 16 repeats. Rare first issue of the first and only edition of a collection of Greek works many of the individual works appearing here in their first editions: one of the first books produced by the famous printer-publisher Aldus Manutius published less than a year after his first book. In fact Aldus printed only one complete book before the present edition though he also issued the first parts of two others all in Greek and published Bembo's Latin De Aetna in the same month.The first editions in the present collection include 12 of the Ecloques of Theocritus Hesiod's Theogonia or De generatione deorum and selections from the Greek gnomic poets. It is the most interesting of all Aldine Greek editions containing a wide variety of linguistic forms and packed with mythological or moralizing passages and as such highly interesting for the history of education and of humanism in general and the beginning of the study of Greek language and literature in particular. There are two issues of the present edition and the present first issue is the rarer. With armorial bookplate on the last leaf below the colophon. In very good condition and with large margins with the first 2 and last 2 leaves somewhat foxed a few leaves with small marginal worm holes along the foot edge or very faint marginal water stains none approaching the text. One of the most important books and nearly the first printed by Aldus Manutius in the rare first issue.l BMC V554-555; BN Paris T101; BSB T148; Essling 888; Goff T144; Hoffmann III 473-474; IDL 4302; IGI 9497; Plelechet/Polain 11059; Renouard p. 1495 no. 3 'éd. très rare'; Sander 7235; Sheehan Vaticana T48; UCLA 7; Walsh Harvard 2635-2637; not in Polain; cf. Lowry The world of Aldus Manutius p. 114; for the bookplate: http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.aspimageId=lwlpr21280. Aldus Manutius, unknown
1760239329London 1760. hardcover. fine. viii 493 3 pages with parallel Greek and Latin texts. Imperial 8vo a beautiful binding in choice state attributed to Staggemeier. Full navy blue straight-grained morocco gilt broad roll border on sides in gilt and blind with gilt inner cornerpieces; ornate spine tooled in gilt and blind in compartments with double bands; edges marbled and gilt. London: Impensis Editoris. Prostant venalia apud C. Hitch & L. Hawkes D. Prince and E. Easton 1760. A superb copy of this scarce large paper edition.<br/> <br/> From the library of William Beckford of Fonthill Lot 2533 in Part III of the Beckford sale July 1883. Later in the collections of Sir Edward Sullivan Jean Gennadius & Henry Clements. OCLC lists 23 copies including those at Columbia Yale Harvard & Cambridge.<br/> <br/> unknown
1896ST16988Paris: Édouard Pelletan 1896. No. 9 OF 25 COPIES from a total run of 350 WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR by Georges Bellenger and two extra suites of illustrations signed by E. Froment. 295 x 228 mm. 11 5/8 x 9". 3 p.l. xi 4 16-41 9 pp. 1 leaf blank. French translation by André Bellessort. Prefaced by a letter from Anatole France. <br/> ELEGANT HONEY BROWN MOROCCO GILT BY LORTIC fils covers with Greek key frame central panel enclosed by interlocking frames of brown and gilt rules embellished with gilt volutes and flowers oblique palmette cornerpieces raised bands spine compartments with centerpiece formed by drawer-handle tools and palmettes gilt lettering wide turn-ins with palmette frame purple watered silk endleaves marbled paper flyleaves all edges gilt. Original paper wrappers bound in. Preserved in a calf-lined marbled paper slipcase. Text in two alternating decorative frames tailpiece at end and 12 illustrations three of them full-page by Georges Bellenger engraved by E. Froment this copy with two additional suites of the 15 engravings one on japon one on chine bound at rear and WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR of two nymphs tormenting a faun SIGNED BY GEORGES BELLENGER. Parallel text in Greek and French on facing pages. Front flyleaf with engraved armorial bookplate. Carteret IV 377. ◆A couple of tiny dark spots to front board title page with three small spots of foxing but A VERY FINE COPY clean and fresh internally with generous margins the watercolor on bright stock and the binding unworn.<br/> <br/> From one of the leading publishers of luxury editions during what Ray calls "the golden age of bibliophiles" this is an excerpt from the "Idylls" of Theocritus in a binding from an esteemed Parisian workshop. Marcellin Lortic 1852-1928 was trained by his father Pierre 1822-92 one of the great binders of 19th century Paris; the firm was known for their superb interpretations of traditional styles. Flety notes that unlike his father Lortic fils handled all aspects of a binding himself as designer binder and gilder. He was an eccentric workaholic living alone in his workshop and devoting his life to his craft. According to Flety "his bindings appeared in numerous libraries of great collectors of his time" who showed their satisfaction and appreciation with persistent loyalty. Protective of his reputation--and also loathe to work with others--he refused to hire an apprentice/successor choosing instead to sell his equipment and tools when he was no longer able to work. <br /> <br /> Our text follows in the tradition of an ancient Greek poetic form comprising a conversation between two lovers often unsurprisingly with amorous content--in the present case seduction leading to marriage. The style was adopted by and enjoyed a vogue among Symbolist poets like Paul Verlaine in the 19th century. The illustrations--alive with nymphs fauns and other mythological creatures--are the work of Georges Bellenger 1847-1918. He exhibited landscapes and still life paintings in the Paris Salon but was best known for his lithographs. He received a commendation from the Société des Artistes Français in 1889. Édouard Pelletan unknown
1628104518Parisiis Paris : Joannem Libert 1628. 175x110mm. 4 191 431 268 pages dition bilingue: latin - grec ancien reliure parchemin de lÕpoque titre manuscrit au dos. Intrieur propre. Brunet 3 142: ÒVolume peu communÓ. 585 Joannem Libert unknown
177038980Oxonii Oxford: E Typographeo Clarendoniano Clarendon Press 1770. Two volumes complete. A STUNNING LARGE ELEGANTLY-BOUND SET OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDITION OF THEOCRITUS AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS EVER TO BE PRODUCED BY THE CLARENDON PRESS. iv lxx 2 316; iv 416 complete. 29 x 24 cm. Edited by Thomas Warton with notes by Jean Toup. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper in Greek Roman and Italic types. From the library of French antiquarian bookseller and bookplate expert Jacques Laget with his bookplates. 4tos. Elegantly bound in contemporary full polished calf spines richly gilt in six compartments with fleurons covers decorated in gilt all edges marbled silk ribbon page markers. Tiny traces of wear to bindings else FINE AND BRIGHT. Moss II pp. 692-693: "This I consider upon the whole the third best book which has ever issued from the Clarendon Press. It is says Harwood 'a very splendid edition and after a careful perusal I can pronounce it as correct as it is splendid.'" A WONDERFUL SET IN ALMOST PERFECT CONDITION. <br/><br/> E Typographeo Clarendoniano (Clarendon Press) unknown
1971071688London / New York: Clover Hill Editions / Chilmark Press 1971. 2 Volumes quarter brown leather and cloth gilt top edge gilt in clean bright condition slightly sunned on the spines housed in the matching slipcase number III from an edition of 135 complete with an additional set of the 8 etchings all signed by Gross in a custom built folder matching leather spine and marbled boards. Bearing the library bookplate of Sebastian and Penelope Carter. Signed By The Artist. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Gross Anthony. Small Folio. Clover Hill Editions / Chilmark Press Hardcover
192328780Paris: René Kieffer 1923. First edition. Vettiner J.-B. Full brown morocco signed by René Kieffer with narrow inlays in darker brown and a wide gilt band tooled with a pattern of triangles top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers. Spine slightly darkened otherwise fine. Matching slipcase. Printed on vélin teinté this is one of 50 copies with a suite of the wood engravings on japon pelure. The 41 engravings in the suite are mounted and bound in at the end. René Kieffer unknown
19713707New York: Clover Hill Editions and Chilmark Press 1971 1971. Limited edition. XXI of 135 copies numbered I-CXXXV signed by Anthony Gross and containing a set of signed prints in final state. 330x240mm. pp. xv 3 54 2. Illustrated with eight etchings by Anthony Gross. Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lion's Press Cambridge. Brown quarter morocco beige cloth. Line drawing of a bull's head in gilt to upper cover spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt. Issued loose in a separate box is another signed set of these etchings. Box is brown quarter morocco with marbled paper. Both volumes are housed in a slipcase covered with brown paper and head and foot with brown buckram. The whole is in superb condition throughout. Loosely inserted is the Clover Hill Prospectus for The Story of Cupid and Psyche and a manuscript letter from Douglas Cleverdon to the previous owner of this copy of the Theocritus. Cleverdon established Clover Hill Editions with Will Carter. Before this he was a bookseller in Bristol and a producer for the BBC where he made programmes with Stevie Smith Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath and most famously Dylan Thomas producing the premier of Under Milk Wood. A beautiful copy of this 1971 reissue of the 1588 edition of Sixe Idillia printed in Oxford. Anthony Gross 1905-1984 was a painter and printmaker. He is "best known for his etchings which are characterised by dense decorative line and texture often achieved by the use of unconventional printmaking tools". V&A website. This style is perfectly suited to the heated and claustrophobic Arcadian world of Theocritus's Idylls with its tortured lovers wild animals and wilder monsters. New York: Clover Hill Editions and Chilmark Press 1971 hardcover
17704654Oxonii Oxford: E Typographeo Clarendoniano 1770. 2 vols. 4to pp. iv lx ii 134 5 135-236 80; iv 388 4 389-412 4. Bound with: Curae Posteriores sive Appendicula notarum atque emendationum in Theocritum Oxonii nuperrime publicatum. Londini London: Apud Johannem Nourse 1772. 4to pp. iii-vii i 45 3. Slightly later diced Russia by J. Bohn boards bordered with a gilt rule spines divided by raised bands between gilt rules second third and fourth compartments gilt-lettered direct marbled edges and endpapers. Occasional toning and spotting a handful of leaves with a marginal stain from before binding. A little rubbing and scratches spine ends just a touch worn and vol. 1 joints cracking. Binder’s ticket to front pastedown pencil note signed ‘TLM’ to binder’s blank about a dozen marginal corrections and annotations in an early hand in vol. 2; from the library of the Gaisford family though without mark of ownership. A very nice copy of the famous Warton Theocritus reputed to be one of the most elegant editions ever published by Oxford University’s Clarendon Press. Thomas Warton 1728-1790 Oxford Professor of Poetry and later Poet Laureate wrote satirical verse but also maintained a talent for serious scholarship earning considerable respect for his efforts in this edition: ‘a very splendid edition. every lover of Greek literature is under great obligations to the very learned and ingenious Mr. Warton for this magnificant edition of Theocritus’ Harwood quot. in Dibdin. There are also contributions from the brilliant but difficult scholar Jonathan Toup 1713-1785. Together here with Warton’s edition is an appendix separately published two years later and hence rarely found though explicitly intended to accompany the main text. This copy is elegantly bound by Johann Bohn 1757-1843 German emigre bookbinder likely c. 1810 - Bohn established himself on Frith Street in 1795 and by the late 1810s had shifted focus to bookselling and the binding was plausibly done for Thomas Gaisford 1779-1855 who reached the position of Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford in 1811. Gaisford’s bookplate is absent but the copy was among books recently dispersed by a branch of descendants and Theocritus was an author Gaisford edited for his Poetae Minores Graeci 1814-1820. ESTC T103789 T103788; Dibdin II 488-492. E Typographeo Clarendoniano hardcover
1971198321New York: Clover Hill Editions 1971. Number 11 of 135 copies signed by the Artist. Hardcover. Good Slipcase is lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; spine of slipcase is weakened by splitting; book boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged primarily at the spine; textblock edges are lightly toned/foxed; interior is really clear and crisp; binding is solid; clamshell box is lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; etchings are clean and bright. Gross Anthony. Light brown and reddish brown slipcase; one volume with dark brown leather and light brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration; one clamshell box with brown leather and illustrated paper; xv 54 pp.; richly illustrated; 7 etchings. This is number 11 of 135 signed copies; clamshell box contains 7 etchings which include 6 full-page and one half-page. Clamshell appears to have one missing etching; Book contains 7 full-page and one half-page of etchings in bound text volume including the frontis. Clover Hill Editions hardcover
177027449Oxonii Oxford: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano 1770. First edition thus 2 volumes 4to iv lx ii 236 80 index; iv 412 4 pp. Light marginal damp staining in volume I volume II with heavier damp staining at the beginning and end some old and more recent marginal repairs to several leaves at the beginning final 7 leaves with a marginal hole to the top corner. Recent half calf gilt spine with red and black labels. Oxonii [Oxford]: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano unknown
1923370Paris: René Kieffer 1923. Limited Edition. Near fine. Jean-Baptiste Vettiner 1871-1935. 4to 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches 260 x 194 mm; pp. iv 156. This is copy no. 7 of the DELUXE EDITION of 50 printed on vélin teinté with the ADDITIONAL SET OF 41 WOODCUTS PRINTED ON JAPON PELURE and mounted at the rear of the book. 32 woodcuts by Jean-Baptiste Vettiner plus the original front paper wrapper bound in at the front of the book and the original paper back strip tipped in at the rear of the book. Dark green embossed morocco by René Kieffer - binder's ticket mounted to front free endpaper - black tooled with a central medallion bearing a classical Grecian crouching female nude surrounded by vines and grapes and with additional decorative motifs that run across the boards and spine; spine sunned and front hinge expertly repaired edges slightly rubbed in places marbled endpapers title in gilt t.e.g. rest uncut. Occasional foxing and staining in the margins around the mounted woodcuts not affecting images. A beautiful copy of the DELUXE EDITION of a classic collection of pastoral poems and elegies by the Sicilian poet Theocritus c. 300 BCE. - c. 260 BCE known for his epic and pastoral works in Greek. The energetic woodcuts that illustrate each of the stories are the work of Jean-Baptiste Vettiner 1871-1935 a French artist and engraver who studied at the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux moved to Paris and became active in the early 1920s in the Société de la gravure sur bois originale Authentic Woodblock Engraving Society. His work on the Pastorales is considered one of his masterpieces the ADDITIONAL SET OF 41 WOODCUTS PRINTED ON JAPON mounted at the rear. René Kieffer unknown
1923351Paris: René Kieffer 1923. Limited Edition. Near fine. Jean-Baptiste Vettiner 1871-1935. 4to 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches 260 x 200 mm; pp. iv 156. 32 woodcuts by Jean-Baptiste Vettiner. Binding by René Kieffer in dark blue crushed morocco title in gilt with ONE OF THE ORIGINAL WOOD-BLOCKS HEIGHTENED WITH GILT AND INSET INTO THE UPPER COVER. Blue striped endpapers a slight one-inch split along the front hinge of the pastedown and ffep top edge gilt rest uncut blue silk ribbon page marker. Original printed upper paper wrapper and unprinted paper spine bound in. This is copy no. 251 of 500 copies. With an ORIGINAL PEN AND INK SKETCH BY THE ARTIST bound in. A beautiful copy of a classic collection of pastoral poems and elegies by the Sicilian poet Theocritus c. 300 B.C. - c. 260 B.C. know for his epic and pastoral works in Greek. The energetic woodcuts that illustrate each of the stories are the work of Jean-Baptiste Vettiner 1871-1935 a French artist and engraver who studied at the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux moved to Paris and became active in the early 1920s in the Société de la gravure sur bois originale Authentic Woodblock Engraving Society. His work on the Pastorales is considered one of his masterpieces and this copy is adorned by one of the original wood-blocks on the front cover of its handsome dark blue morocco binding by René Kieffer. René Kieffer unknown
1699AGL0002<p><strong><em>ΘεοκÏίτου τα ΕυÏισκόμενα</em></strong></p><p><em>Theokritou ta Evriskomena</em></p><p><strong><em>ΕιδÏλλιον</em> - </strong><em>Idyllion</em></p><p><em><strong>Theocriti</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Idyllia</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>quæ extant cum graecis scholiis notis et indicibus</strong></em></p><p>Josephi Scaligieri Isaaci Casauboni et Danielis Heinsii</p><p>Emendationes Notae & Lectiones in Theocriti Idyllia</p><p>Oxoniae e Theatro Sheldoniano impensis Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford 1699</p><p>Size: 205 cm x 13.5cm 8.25in X 5.25in</p><p>pp. 14254183</p><p>First Oxford Edition</p><p>Contemporary Leather Binding</p><p><strong>Theocritus</strong> ΘεόκÏιτος c. 300 BC - after 260 BC was a Greek poet from Sicily Magna Graecia and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry. His <em>Idylls</em> are still widely read today much in part to fine 17th-century examples such as this 1699 Oxford printing. This particular edition is considerably noteworthy it features both Latin and original Greek texts.</p> Sam. Smith, & Benj. Walford
17604496Oxford: n. pr. 1760. 4to pp. 8 numbered 1 91-94 94 93 42. Stitched as issued sometime folded horizontally. Toned in places final page browned some spots and light soiling edges a little creased. ‘Thick’ in a small contemporary hand to top corner of first page. An unrecorded specimen for an unspecified edition of Theocritus but probably Warton’s highly regarded version issued in 1770 by the Clarendon Press. The cover title reads simply ‘Specimens of Theocritus’ but no other quarto edition of the author was published in Great Britain in the 18th century. The arrangement is unusual: the first page is the section title. The second prints the introduction and first ten lines of Idyll VI while the third page begins Idyll VI again but prints the first twelve lines this time without accents. The fourth page follows on from the text on the second now with a Latin translation at the foot in a single column. The fifth page starts Idyll VI again printing the first 12 lines without accents but omitting the scholiast’s introduction adding instead a Latin translation in two columns. The sixth page is just a Latin translation of the first thirty or so lines in one column and the seventh page contains scholia and the eighth variorum notes. Warton’s edition uses a layout similar to that on the third page here though in the published book Idyll VI appears on p. 31 and other details of typography vary; the type itself is similarly very close but with considerable variation in use of ligatures between the specimen and the published text. On the other hand Warton’s edition also does not include variorium notes and the text of the scholia there is significantly different to the specimen page. The crucial element is that Warton’s edition was notable for the absence of accents in its Greek text - testing whether such a change would work may make sense of the variations in this specimen and the variorum notes may have been cut along with portions of the scholia by the time the edition was in the press. Letters between Toup and Warton indicate that printing was underway as early as May 1768 so this specimen would likely predate that. [n. pr.] unknown
16042720Heidelberg: Ex Bibliopolio Commeliniano 1604. 4to pp. xxviii 432. Near-contemporary vellum boards boards bordered in blind with a small centrepiece and cornerpieces of the same tool in blind spine lettered in ink front board lettered ‘MCG / 1614’ in gilt edges blue. Lightly browned some spotting. Vellum somewhat soiled and showing some creasing on spine and a few scratches to boards hinge strained at title-page. Old stamp of a German school library to title-page first 20 leaves of text with underlining in red ink and several annotations in black ink most of them on the first page of text a binder’s blank at the end also filled with notes in the same hand. The second Heinsius edition of Theocritus which followed an octavo of 1603 that Heinsius reportedly tried to suppress. The second ‘is preferable and is in fact a very excellent edition. Heinsius’s readings are learned sagacious and ingenious’ Dibdin. VD17 23:240602X; Dibdin II 486; Schweiger I 310. Ex Bibliopolio Commeliniano hardcover
1770a006.theoGB: Oxonii: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano 1770. Contemporary full leather with raised bands and burgundy title labels. Volume I title page dedication i-lxix then lx shoudl be lxx 2 1-134 4 135-191 193-236 80. index verborum Volume II title page contents 1-388 4 389-412 Some pages misnumbered 95 93; 183 283 & 238 and 239 used twice resulting in no pages 243-4. Text is complete as issued and fully collated. Generally the texts are clean and tight with occasional dustiness mostly to top margins. BUT NOTE I old worm holes to leading edge and bottom margin of endpapers and first eight leaves minor. Some sections of text appear to be printed on poorer quality paper and show some minor browning. A few other pages a bit marked. The leather bindings are in very good condition with covers holding very soundly but both books are a bit warped. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Townley featuring their arms Argent on a fesse sable a cinquefoil or in chief three mullets of the second in wreaths of flowers etc but not their name. From the library of Town Head House Windermere. in both books.SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY GB 2018 £8 Packed weight 4200g. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW. Oxonii: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano Hardcover
1871987Y2Lipsiae; Oxonii : Ottonis Holtze; Apud Parker et Socios 1871-1890. Vellum. Very Good. 5.5" by 4". None. Four vellum-bound volumes of classical literature being the editions of German scholars Johann Stallbaum and Christian Hermann Weisse. A charming set comprising four pocket volumes containing the works of Plato Homer Aeschylus and Theocritus. Uniformly bound in full vellum with morocco spine labels.Works are in Greek with titles and accompanying critical notes in Latin. Comprising the following:Platonis Opera Omnia ad Fiem Optimorum Librorum Denu Recognovit et una cum Scholis Graecis Tomus VII 1871 - New Tauchnitz stereotype edition new impression. Edited with amendments by Johann Gottfried Stallbaum a German classical scholar. Includes Timaeus Timaei Locri Lib. De Anima Mundi. Critias Parmenides. Symposion.Aeschyli Tragoediae. ad Praestantium Librorum Fidem Recensuit et Animadversiones Criticas 1877 - New Tauchnitz stereotype edition new impression. With critical notes by Christian Hermann Weisse a German Protestant religious philosopher and professor at the University of Leipzig. Very scarce.Homeri Odyssea 1889 - No editor stated. Editor's note stating this edition follows the text of Immanuel Bekker Berol. 8vo. 1843.Theocriti Bionis et Moschi Idyllia. Ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem Recensuit Notasque Criticas Adiecit 1890 - New Tauchnitz stereotype edition new impression. With critical notes by Weisse. Very scarce. Uniformly bound in full vellum with morocco spine labels. Externally with speckling and a few spots to the vellum. With discolouration to the spines. Internally very firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with spots to the endpapers. Very Good Ottonis Holtze; Apud Parker et Socios hardcover
1922978F39London: The Medici Society 1922. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 11" by 8.5". W. Russell Flint. Illustrated with colour plates here are two volumes of classical bucolic and pastoral poetry translated into English by fairy tale collector Andrew Lang. A limited edition work. Limited editions of the first editions of Andrew Lang's English verse translations of the Idyls of classical poets Theocritus Bion and Moschus. Numbers 402 of 500 copies of each volume produced.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrappers.Volume I illustrated with fifteen mounted colour plates and volume II with five mounted colour plates all after Scottish artist and illustrator William Russell Flint.Collated complete.The Idyls of Bion and Moschus are short bucolic poems by the Hellenistic Greek poets Bion of Smyrna and Moschus of Syracuse blending pastoral scenes of shepherd life with themes of love myth and elegy.The Idyls of Theocritus are the earliest and most influential pastoral poems presenting vivid depictions of rustic life mythological narratives and the loves and rivalries of herdsmen. It became the model for later European pastoral poetry. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards with unclipped dust wrappers. Externally fine. Dust wrappers significantly age toned to back strip with sunning to wrap perimeters. Chipping and minor losses to back strip head and tail. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with only the odd spot. Near Fine The Medici Society hardcover
1946268663Paris : Union bibliophile de France 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and strong. Contained in decorated slip-case. Physical description; 169 p. fig. médaillon en relief à la couv. ; In-fol. Subject; Théocrite. Paris : Union bibliophile de France paperback
197184375Chilmark Press 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. New York: Chilmark Press 1971. First edition thus. Quarter maroon cloth over marbled boards. Fine in a fine cloth and paper-covered board slipcase. xv 54 pp. "This is the sixth of the Clover Hill editions of the Chilmark Press." No. 113 of 270 copies. Reprint of the ed. printed at Oxford in 1588. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Chilmark Press, hardcover
197141936Chilmark Press Clover Hill Editions 1971. Hardcover. Like New. Clover Hill Chilmark Press New York Large 4to xv iii 54 vi pp. Original brown ¼ buckram with marbled boards printed on paper made by J. Barcham Green. Limited edition No. 127 of 270 copies. An as new copy in matching original slipcase Oversized and Overweight Please email for photos. Chilmark Press, Clover Hill Editions hardcover
179629034<p>Printed in Paris by Didot jeune during l'an IV 1796 Idylles de Théocrite traduites en français par J.B. Gail offers a French translation of Theocritus's Idylls. Gail's version appears in a 16mo volume bound in red morocco with gilt spine and marbled boards and edges. This edition contains 19 engravings. It reflects the period's classical revival in literary publishing. Condition: Near Fine. Bright binding with only light corner rubbing. Internally fresh and clean. Format: Sextodecimo 16mo single volume. Collation: 152 pp; 170 pp. Illustrations: 19 engraved plates. Edition: First French Translation Edition 1796. #29034. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> de l'imprimerie de Didot jeune hardcover
19229749London: Medici Society 1922. Edition limited to 512 copies this #389/500 on hand-made Riccardi paper 2 volumes 4to 20 mounted color plates by Flint sensuously rendering the works of these late Greek poets; fine set in original holland-backed boards paper labels on upper covers and spines; this set retaining its original printed dust jackets lightly chipped at extremities. Medici Society unknown
