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Ricardi Porsoni. Adversaria. Notae Et Emendationes in Poetas Graecos Quas Ex Schedis Manuscriptis Porsoni.deprompserunt Et Ordinarunt Nec Non Indicibus Instruxerunt.
181211469Cambridge: Sumptibus Collegii SS. Trinitatis.joannes Smith. Good with no dust jacket. 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. Xvii iii 334 pages. Index Auctorum Rerum Verborum. Corrigenda Octavo. In what appears to be original grey-green cloth with blind stamped borders and design gilt to spine. Spine is darkened spine tips bit worn edge wear old black tape at bottom front cover interior yellow end papers with tide marks at bottom front and back rear inside cover has library stamp some foxing throughout most pages never separated otherwise clean and unmarked. In Latin with extensive Greek in a very nice crisp and dark typeface. Aged but still respectable and sturdy. The scarce first edition of Porson's Adversaria edited from his notes after his death by fellow scholars Blomfield and Monk. It includes Porson's notes on Athenaeus and the Greek poets and his prelection on Euripides. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pages . Sumptibus Collegii SS. Trinitatis,..joannes Smith hardcover
