Carmina libri tres, cum libro quarto sulpiciae et aliorum.Novis curis castigavit Chr. G. Heyne.

TIBULLUS, Albius.

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Title: Carmina libri tres, cum libro quarto ...

Publisher: Ex officina Dürria for Joannes Gottlob Feindius,, Leipzig,

Publication Date: 1798

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, both sides with gilt lines and floral borders around a gilt centre piece: Minerva sitting under a tree, and holding a book with her left hand and leaning with her right arm on the coat of arms of the city of Haarlem with the motto 'Vicit vim virtus' underneath (=Spoelder, Haarlem, nr. 3); spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, incl. the original ties (exactly the same binding as described by Coppens for his nr. 63). With elegant engraved title vignette and engraved vignettes for each of the 4 books. XCII, 222, (2), 343 pp. Third much enlarged edition of the collected poetical work by Albius Tibullus (ca. 55 BC - ca. 19 BC). Tibullus was a Roman Poet about whom we know little, but who was considered by Quintilian, and later y many others, the best Roman poet. The work is edited by the famous German scholar and philologist Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812), friend of Winckelmann and rector of the University of Göttingen. In 1855 he published the first edition of the poems of Tibullus. For this third edition he has collated 4 extra manuscripts in the library at Wolfenbüttel. The Heyne edition is considered to be one of the best 19th century editions of the Roman poet.Our copy served as a Prize book, presented to Jacob Rendorp a pupil of the Latin School at Haarlem on 22 August 1811. Complete with the extra leaf with the printed 'Ex-praemio': "Ingenuo, modesto ac bonae spei adolescenti (Jacobo Rendorp) ob egregia industriae in studiis specimina . praemium hoc Litararium decrevere Quatuor-Viri Scholae Harlemo-Batavae constituendae; cum (e tertiae classis ordine inferiore ad superiorem) promoveretur", signed by the rector H. Waardenburg, together with the signatures of A. van den Ende, A.J. Arntzenius, Van Walre and P. de Gravere (for the greater part as the copy described by Coppens as his nr. 64). The centre piece has been in use during the years 1770 till far into the 19th century. In the standard work on, and bibliography of Dutch Prize Books - the phenomenon of prize giving and prize books at the Latin Schools in the Republic of the United Netherlands and the later Kingdom, from ca. 1585-1876 - this stamp is listed as the third used by the Latin School at Haarlem. Very fine copy; binding in excellent condition. Graesse VII, p. 157; Binding:Coppens, De prijs is het bewijs, nrs. 63-65; Spoelder, Prijsboeken, p. 590 (Haarlem 3, with illustr., also used on the binding and dust jacket of this reference work). Bookseller Inventory # 65PD1C2XUOX9