[Rarebooks] FS: Important edition of Anacreon. Cambridge: 1705
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Anacreon. ANACREON TEIUS, Poeta Lyricus Summa Cura & Diligentia, ad Fidem
Etiam Vet. MS. Vatican. Emendatus… Item Anacreontis Vita… Accessere Ormanenti
Loco Tres Eleganter-Sculptae… Opera & Studio Josuae Barnes… Cambridge:
Recentioribus Typis Academicis, Imprensis Edmundi Jeffery. 1705. 12mo. First edition
edited by Barnes (a noteable professor of Greek at Cambridge University).
(20),lxxv,(37),401,(7)pp. Index. Illustrated with 3 copper engraved folding
portraits (the author, the editor, and the Duke of Marlborough). Cont. tooled,
paneled calf, rebacked, gilt decorated spine with black morocco label. Hinges
cracked but holding nicely. Engraved bookplate on front pastedown & the same owner’s
signature dated 1710 on a blank preliminary. One leaf with a repaired tear
(no loss, but a bit discolored). $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
See Dibdin, GREEK & LATIN CLASSICS, 4th ed. Vol. I, p. 260-261.
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