[Rarebooks] Valpy's Dauphine Classics (183 volumes) in 1/2 morocco.

[Serendipity Books]

Valpy (A.J.) - publisher.  SCRIPTORES LATINI IN USUM DELPHINI Cum 
Notis Variorum Variis Lectionibus Conspectu Codicum et Editionum et 
Editionum et Indicibus Locupletissimus.  Cura et Imprensis A. J. 
Valpy.   London: Valpy, 1819-1830.   183 volumes (of 185, lacking 
only the CATULLUS, which may be available in a French 
edition).  Recent 1/2 orange morocco by the fine binder Cortland 
Benson of Victoria, BC, Canada, bound especially for Hugh McDonald, 
an American corporate analyst who retired to Victoria. 
His  considerable Aldine collection is at Simon Fraser 
University.  Volumes bound to a uniform size, resulting in either 
fewer or more volumes, in comparison with other sets, depending upon 
how the other sets are bound.  "The true significance of the Delphin 
series is that it represents a genuine collection of classic authors, 
edited systematically, to a uniform plan, whereas the usual editions 
of the time (the variorum editions) made no such 
attempt.  Valpy...made no attempt to take over the Delphin 17th 
century originals in their entirety, although he did add 
supplementary material.   For example. in the case of Boethius, 
although the copy text is not that used in the 17th C., the index, 
the interpretatio (Latin paraphrase) and the annotations of the 
original are retained, with additional notes.  Valpy crowned his 
philological endeavors with a critical apparatus and a list of 
editions and manuscripts, [the absence of] which is the weak point of 
the original collection.  Valpy put the original Delphin notes in the 
margin, giving them priority over the variorum notes which he printed 
at the end of the volumes.  The Latin translation for the use of the 
Dauphin appears at the foot of each page, emphasizing the 
significance of the original series, in which the interpretatio was 
an innovation (although the translation of paraphrase does not always 
correspond to the text). The Valpy edition, finally, draws attention 
to the conceptual weakness of the Delphin series, for he felt obliged 
to add at the end of each volume the literary criticism of the text 
that is found in the German Bipontine editions." - Ian Jackson, by 
letter, citing recent scholarship. $15,000.00


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