Theocriti Syracusii Quae Supersunt. Cum scholiis Græcis auctioribus, emendationibus et animadversionibus in scholia editoris et Joannis Toupii, glossis Selectis Ineditis, indicibus Amplissimis. Præmittuntur editoris dissertatio de bucolicis Græcorum, vita Theocriti a Josua Barnesio Scripta, Cum Nonnullis Aliis Auctariis. Accedunt Editoris Et Variorum Notae Perpetuae, epistola Joaniis Toupii de Syracusiis, ejusdem addenda in Theocritum, Necnon Collationes Quindecim Codicum. Edidit Thomas Warton, S. T. B. Coll. Ss. Trin. Socius, Nuper Poeticae Publicus.

E Typographeo Clarendoniano (Clarendon Press), 1770

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Year of publication

1770

Place of printing

Oxonii (Oxford)

Author

Theocritus (Thomas Warton, Jacques St-Amand, And Jean Toup, Edit, Ors)

Publishers

E Typographeo Clarendoniano (Clarendon Press)

Keyword

coleantiq svv

Dust jacket

Yes

Languages

English

Inscribed

Yes

First edition

Yes

Description

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.