A Manual of Classical Bibliography: Comprising a Copious Detail of the Various Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, and of the Critical and . French, Italian, Spanish, German, Etc

Moss, Joseph William

ISBN 10: 0804607141 / ISBN 13: 9780804607148

Published by Kennikat Press, Port Washington, 1969

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2-volume set. Foxing to edges of pages. Otherwise, clean and solid. ; 8vo; 1273 pages. Seller Inventory # 325666

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Title: A Manual of Classical Bibliography: ...

Publisher: Kennikat Press, Port Washington

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

Edition: 2nd Edition

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... says Kenouard, in consequence of its haying been much read by young persons and frequently defaced by the less scrupulous; in consequence of which many copies of this edition are made up of those of 1516 and 1534, which are printed with the same characters and on similar paper. There are copies On Vellum; Lord Spencers's cost him 631. In 1515-18 another Aldine edition appeared, the care of editing which was committed to Andr. Navagerus; it consists of 3 parts, one of which was printed in 1515, containing the Amatory Poems, &c. and the two others in 1516; the first of which comprises some Annotations on the whole Works of Ovid, an Alphabetical Index to this volume, and the Metamorphoses; the.2nd contains ' A. Ptolemwi inerrantium Stellarum stgni-ficationes per Nicolaum Leonicum è graeco translate, xii. Romanorum menses in ueteribus monimentis lionise. Sex priorum mensium digestio ex sex Ouidij Fastorum libris ex-cerpta,' Fasti, Tristia, de Ponto, In Ibin, & Consolatio ad Liviam. Complete copies of this edition are equally difficult to be procured with the preceding; the text has been carefully revised and corrected by Navagerus, who has substituted some annotations which are prefixed to the Metamorphoses, in lieu of the Index Graeco-Latinus; he received considerable assistance, as he says, from some MSS.--Prefixed to the volume containing the Libri Amatorii is a long prefatory Epistle addressed by Asola to Cardinal Bernardus Divitius, in which he expresses the most lively regret for the loss of Aldus (who died in 1515) and declares his intention of using his endeavours to continue publishing good editions of Greek and Latin Authors. Renouard has extracted the greater part of this preface in his Annales, t i. p. 125. The third and...