[Rarebooks] FS: Important ed. of "Anacreon Teius" in Greek & Latin. Cambridge: 1705

[Kenneth Karmiole]

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 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. Front hinge cracked but holding nicely. Engraved bookplate of Edward Conyers, Esq., of Walthamstow, Essex, on front pastedown & the same owner's signature dated 1710 on a blank preliminary. 1710 is the year Conyers (1693-1742) graduated from Oxford. One leaf with a repaired tear (no loss, but a bit discolored).                           $300.00 (trade discount allowed)

See Dibdin, GREEK & LATIN CLASSICS, 4th ed. Vol. I, p. 260-261.

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