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1929réf. 175155London: Fanfrolico Press 1929. Translated by Jack Lindsay with wood cuts by Lionel Ellis and an Introduction by Edward Hutton. Pp. xxiv164last blank frontispiece plus 19 plates most with tissue guard notes; impl. 8vo; green vellum lettered and decorated in gilt lightly mottled edges of boards lightly and spine heavily faded small red stain to lower board; t.e.g. others uncut; a few tiny spots of foxing; The Fanfrolico Press London n.d.1929. One of 500 numbered copies thus total edition 530. Arnold 32. Fanfrolico Press unknown
1929réf. B6899Paris: A l’Enseigne du Pot Casse. C. 1929. Boards sunned. Interior is clean and crisp. Binding: Full green suede boards faded. Gilt lettering and tooling on flat spine. Wide suede turn-ins with gilt-tooled dentelles. Heavier green marbled pasted and free endpapers. Top edges marbled red. Housed in paperboard slipcase marbled green as with endpapers. Notes: Text in French. Limited edition no. 1639. Size: Small 8vo. 173 x 105mm Illustration: A very good example of this translation of Theocritus’ poems. Publisher’s ticket bound in at back. Provenance: Marie D. Bauset lettered in gilt at bottom edge of turn-in. Category: Book Classics; Book Literature; A l’Enseigne du Pot Casse. hardcover
1713réf. 4638London: Printed for E. Curll 1713. ii iv 60 105 3 4 ads frontispiece. Bound without the portrait of Creech found in some copies. Contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf red morocco label. Lightly toned some soiling. Extremities rubbed a few scrapes joints cracking at head of spine. The first edition of Creech’s translation of Theocritus by the famously unscrupulous publisher Edmund Curll following its 1684 Oxford first appearance. Curll’s edition was reissued in 1721 with a cancel title-page suggesting that it did not sell as well as Curll may have hoped. The BL copy has two engraved portraits one of Creech and one of Theocritus but the copies in Leeds and Oxford appear to have only one so it may have been issued thus. ESTC T138189. Printed for E. Curll unknown
1760réf. 4496Oxford: n. pr. 1760. 4to pp. 8 numbered 1 91-94 94 93 42. Stitched as issued sometime folded horizontally. Toned in places final page browned some spots and light soiling edges a little creased. ‘Thick’ in a small contemporary hand to top corner of first page. An unrecorded specimen for an unspecified edition of Theocritus but probably Warton’s highly regarded version issued in 1770 by the Clarendon Press. The cover title reads simply ‘Specimens of Theocritus’ but no other quarto edition of the author was published in Great Britain in the 18th century. The arrangement is unusual: the first page is the section title. The second prints the introduction and first ten lines of Idyll VI while the third page begins Idyll VI again but prints the first twelve lines this time without accents. The fourth page follows on from the text on the second now with a Latin translation at the foot in a single column. The fifth page starts Idyll VI again printing the first 12 lines without accents but omitting the scholiast’s introduction adding instead a Latin translation in two columns. The sixth page is just a Latin translation of the first thirty or so lines in one column and the seventh page contains scholia and the eighth variorum notes. Warton’s edition uses a layout similar to that on the third page here though in the published book Idyll VI appears on p. 31 and other details of typography vary; the type itself is similarly very close but with considerable variation in use of ligatures between the specimen and the published text. On the other hand Warton’s edition also does not include variorium notes and the text of the scholia there is significantly different to the specimen page. The crucial element is that Warton’s edition was notable for the absence of accents in its Greek text - testing whether such a change would work may make sense of the variations in this specimen and the variorum notes may have been cut along with portions of the scholia by the time the edition was in the press. Letters between Toup and Warton indicate that printing was underway as early as May 1768 so this specimen would likely predate that. [n. pr.] unknown
1770réf. 4654Oxonii Oxford: E Typographeo Clarendoniano 1770. 2 vols. 4to pp. iv lx ii 134 5 135-236 80; iv 388 4 389-412 4. Bound with: Curae Posteriores sive Appendicula notarum atque emendationum in Theocritum Oxonii nuperrime publicatum. Londini London: Apud Johannem Nourse 1772. 4to pp. iii-vii i 45 3. Slightly later diced Russia by J. Bohn boards bordered with a gilt rule spines divided by raised bands between gilt rules second third and fourth compartments gilt-lettered direct marbled edges and endpapers. Occasional toning and spotting a handful of leaves with a marginal stain from before binding. A little rubbing and scratches spine ends just a touch worn and vol. 1 joints cracking. Binder’s ticket to front pastedown pencil note signed ‘TLM’ to binder’s blank about a dozen marginal corrections and annotations in an early hand in vol. 2; from the library of the Gaisford family though without mark of ownership. A very nice copy of the famous Warton Theocritus reputed to be one of the most elegant editions ever published by Oxford University’s Clarendon Press. Thomas Warton 1728-1790 Oxford Professor of Poetry and later Poet Laureate wrote satirical verse but also maintained a talent for serious scholarship earning considerable respect for his efforts in this edition: ‘a very splendid edition. every lover of Greek literature is under great obligations to the very learned and ingenious Mr. Warton for this magnificant edition of Theocritus’ Harwood quot. in Dibdin. There are also contributions from the brilliant but difficult scholar Jonathan Toup 1713-1785. Together here with Warton’s edition is an appendix separately published two years later and hence rarely found though explicitly intended to accompany the main text. This copy is elegantly bound by Johann Bohn 1757-1843 German emigre bookbinder likely c. 1810 - Bohn established himself on Frith Street in 1795 and by the late 1810s had shifted focus to bookselling and the binding was plausibly done for Thomas Gaisford 1779-1855 who reached the position of Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford in 1811. Gaisford’s bookplate is absent but the copy was among books recently dispersed by a branch of descendants and Theocritus was an author Gaisford edited for his Poetae Minores Graeci 1814-1820. ESTC T103789 T103788; Dibdin II 488-492. E Typographeo Clarendoniano hardcover
1746réf. 3487Glasguae Glasgow: In aedibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1746. Foolscap 8vo pp. xii 186 58. Contemporary brown calf boards bordered with a double gilt rule spine divided by raised bands compartments with central decorative crosses and circular cornerpieces all gilt marbled endpapers edges red. Lightly toned some spotting. Extremities a touch rubbed joint ends just slightly cracking a few marks label lost from spine. Early MS shelfmark label to front pastedown modern bookplate to flyleaf. Reprinting the edition of Daniel Heinsius originally published in 1603 including Greek scholia. This is Gaskell’s larger foolscap 8vo issue with the Pro Patria watermark. Gaskell 78; ESTC T138185. In aedibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis hardcover
1604réf. 2720Heidelberg: Ex Bibliopolio Commeliniano 1604. 4to pp. xxviii 432. Near-contemporary vellum boards boards bordered in blind with a small centrepiece and cornerpieces of the same tool in blind spine lettered in ink front board lettered ‘MCG / 1614’ in gilt edges blue. Lightly browned some spotting. Vellum somewhat soiled and showing some creasing on spine and a few scratches to boards hinge strained at title-page. Old stamp of a German school library to title-page first 20 leaves of text with underlining in red ink and several annotations in black ink most of them on the first page of text a binder’s blank at the end also filled with notes in the same hand. The second Heinsius edition of Theocritus which followed an octavo of 1603 that Heinsius reportedly tried to suppress. The second ‘is preferable and is in fact a very excellent edition. Heinsius’s readings are learned sagacious and ingenious’ Dibdin. VD17 23:240602X; Dibdin II 486; Schweiger I 310. Ex Bibliopolio Commeliniano hardcover
1929réf. 15319London: Fanfrolico Press 1929. No. 421 of 500 copies. Translated by Jack Lindsay with Woodcuts by Lionel Ellis. Introduction by Edward Hutton. 1 vols. 4to. Full green parchment with device of goatherd & goat gilt on upper cover. Spine and edges of covers faded. Ellis Lionel. No. 421 of 500 copies. Translated by Jack Lindsay with Woodcuts by Lionel Ellis. Introduction by Edward Hutton. 1 vols. 4to. Ridler 4. Ridler 4 Fanfrolico Press unknown
1495réf. 259147Venice: Aldus Manutius 1495. First Aldine edition and the first complete edition of Theocritus printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time; the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works enumerated below; and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Title in Greek and Roman introduction by Aldus in Latin; text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. 140 leaves. 1 vols. Folio 315 x 210 mm. Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tooling in the rest; title soiled and shaved along fore-edge extensive neatly penned marginalia in Greek and Latin in two different hands; gilt edges gauffered to all-over pattern of intersecting diagonal fillets and fleurons. Bookplate of St. Benedict's Abbey Fort Augustus Scotland. First Aldine edition and the first complete edition of Theocritus printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time; the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works enumerated below; and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Title in Greek and Roman introduction by Aldus in Latin; text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. 140 leaves. 1 vols. Folio 315 x 210 mm. First Aldine and first complete edition of the Idylls of Theocritus of which 12 appear here for the first time also including the first edition in the original Greek of Hesiod's Theogony and Shield of Hercules and the elegies of Theognis as well as the second edition of Hesiod's Works and Days which were first printed in Milan circa 1480. This is the first setting of gatherings zeta.F and theta.G with the text uncorrected. Not only is this copy beautifully colored in a contemporary hand none such appear in ABPC for the last 35 years and we are unable to find any institutional copies with coloring but the copy is notable as well for profuse neat contemporary marginalia mostly in Latin but often in Greek which fill the book. The marginal annotations are particularly extensive in the first two Idylls where typically underscored words are explained in the margins; occasionally an interlinear Latin word is provided beneath the Greek in an even smaller but always clear hand. The notes themselves are mostly philological in scope with notations on unusual Doric Theocritus's dialect forms e.g. the Doric form for the preposition 'πpòs' being 'πotì' the identification of parts of speech and grammatical forms poetic usage etc. Especially notable too are frequent comparisons and cross references to passages from Vergil's Eclogues. In the famous Idyll 2 "Pharmaceutria" where a spurned maiden utters incantations to bring her man back home there now seem to be two distinct hands and the notes are particularly frequent and copious. The first note reads: "Unde sumpta est Verg. Pharmaceutria" whence Vergil got his Pharmaceutria. A beautiful copy of a rare and important book with fascinating early annotations. Renouard page 53; New UCLA 7; Hoffmann III 473-74; HC 15477; BMC V 554-55; Goff T144; ISTC it00144000 Aldus Manutius unknown
1971réf. 261704New York: Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press for Clover Hill Editions Chilmark Press 1971. 107 of 270 copies total edition of 417. 8 etchings by Anthony Gross. 54 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter crimson buckram and marbled boards. Fine in slipcase. Gross Anthony. 107 of 270 copies total edition of 417. 8 etchings by Anthony Gross. 54 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, for Clover Hill Editions, Chilmark Press unknown
1929réf. 223815London: Fanfrolico Press 1929. Unnumberred copy of 500. Translated by Jack Lindsay with Woodcuts by Lionel Ellis. Introduction by Edward Hutton. 163. Printed at the Westminster Press. 1 vols. 4to. Full green parchment with device of goatherd & goat gilt on upper cover. Spine and edges of covers faded as usual else fine. Ellis Lionel. Unnumberred copy of 500. Translated by Jack Lindsay with Woodcuts by Lionel Ellis. Introduction by Edward Hutton. 163. Printed at the Westminster Press. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed on flyleaf from Edward Hutton who wrote the introduction to Reggie Turner "For Reggie/ with love/ from his old friend. E.H/ Nov. 1929." Ridler 4 Fanfrolico Press unknown
1495réf. 74RD10G5BNTUVenice: Aldus Manutius 1495. Modern red morocco sewn on 5 supports gold- and blind-blocked red sprinkled edges. Folio. With 8 fine woodcut headpieces 2 by the famous Poliphilus master plus 29 repeats and 23 woodcut outline interlaced initials 3 series: 3-line 5-line and 7-line plus 16 repeats. Rare first issue of the first and only edition of a collection of Greek works many of the individual works appearing here in their first editions: one of the first books produced by the famous printer-publisher Aldus Manutius published less than a year after his first book. In fact Aldus printed only one complete book before the present edition though he also issued the first parts of two others all in Greek and published Bembo's Latin De Aetna in the same month.The first editions in the present collection include 12 of the Ecloques of Theocritus Hesiod's Theogonia or De generatione deorum and selections from the Greek gnomic poets. It is the most interesting of all Aldine Greek editions containing a wide variety of linguistic forms and packed with mythological or moralizing passages and as such highly interesting for the history of education and of humanism in general and the beginning of the study of Greek language and literature in particular. There are two issues of the present edition and the present first issue is the rarer. With armorial bookplate on the last leaf below the colophon. In very good condition and with large margins with the first 2 and last 2 leaves somewhat foxed a few leaves with small marginal worm holes along the foot edge or very faint marginal water stains none approaching the text. One of the most important books and nearly the first printed by Aldus Manutius in the rare first issue.l BMC V554-555; BN Paris T101; BSB T148; Essling 888; Goff T144; Hoffmann III 473-474; IDL 4302; IGI 9497; Plelechet/Polain 11059; Renouard p. 1495 no. 3 'éd. très rare'; Sander 7235; Sheehan Vaticana T48; UCLA 7; Walsh Harvard 2635-2637; not in Polain; cf. Lowry The world of Aldus Manutius p. 114; for the bookplate: http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.aspimageId=lwlpr21280. Aldus Manutius, unknown
1906réf. 64941Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1906. Edition limited to 330 copies this no. 13 printed at the Riverside Press Cambridge; 8vo pp. 6 172 2; decorative wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by M. Lamont Brown some after drawings by Bruce Rogers and some after antique gems and seals; designed by Rogers; original brown paper-covered boards vignette oval onlay on upper cover spine lettered in black; edges rubbed top of spine slightly worn; all else very good. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
réf. A9780520235601Hardback. New. Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century BCE Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. This work considers the workings and representation of poetic patronage in the Ptolemaic age. hardcover
réf. B9780521574204Paperback / softback. New. This volume contains the text of eight poems by the third-century BC Greek poet Theocritus together with an introduction and extensive commentary. This is the first full-scale commentary on the work of Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950. It makes a major contribution to the understanding of pastoral poetry. paperback
1922réf. 14015London Liverpool & Boston: Medici Society 1922. Edition limited to 512 copies this copy #294 of 500 on Riccardi hand-made paper; 2 vols. 4to 20 mounted color plates by Flint sensuously rendering the works of these late Greek poets; fine set in the orig. printed dust-jackets which are faded at the extremities. Medici Society unknown
1925réf. 18113New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1925. Edition ltd. to 750 copies small 4to pp. xv 1 105; title within decorative rule; orig. linen-backed marble-grained paper-covered boards printed paper label on spine spine and label darkened light wear to extremities a few untrimmed fore-edges browning and curling else very good. Albert & Charles Boni unknown
1922réf. 9749London: Medici Society 1922. Edition limited to 512 copies this #389/500 on hand-made Riccardi paper 2 volumes 4to 20 mounted color plates by Flint sensuously rendering the works of these late Greek poets; fine set in original holland-backed boards paper labels on upper covers and spines; this set retaining its original printed dust jackets lightly chipped at extremities. Medici Society unknown
réf. 35029Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1973. Reprint 2nd ed. 2 vols. LXXXIV257;/635XVp. Cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrps slightly worn. Upper edge vol.2 slightly stained. Nice copy. Requires extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 2 - 5 Kg. 'Mr. Gow has kept the small world of scholarship waiting a long time for his Theocritus; but now that it has come its amplitude and quality show the unreasonableness of our impatience.' M. PLATNAUER in The Classical Review New Series 1951 p.169. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. hardcover
1829réf. 70212-A-66681Londini: Whittaker Treacher et Arnot 1829. Cloth bindings. XXII 471; 133 260 pp. -covers rubbed and somewhat foxed edges and corners bumped spine of vol. 1 loose at the top about 3 cm paper slightly browned name on endpapers otherwise good ex libris. Whittaker, Treacher et Arnot hardcover
1923réf. 370Paris: René Kieffer 1923. Limited Edition. Near fine. Jean-Baptiste Vettiner 1871-1935. 4to 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches 260 x 194 mm; pp. iv 156. This is copy no. 7 of the DELUXE EDITION of 50 printed on vélin teinté with the ADDITIONAL SET OF 41 WOODCUTS PRINTED ON JAPON PELURE and mounted at the rear of the book. 32 woodcuts by Jean-Baptiste Vettiner plus the original front paper wrapper bound in at the front of the book and the original paper back strip tipped in at the rear of the book. Dark green embossed morocco by René Kieffer - binder's ticket mounted to front free endpaper - black tooled with a central medallion bearing a classical Grecian crouching female nude surrounded by vines and grapes and with additional decorative motifs that run across the boards and spine; spine sunned and front hinge expertly repaired edges slightly rubbed in places marbled endpapers title in gilt t.e.g. rest uncut. Occasional foxing and staining in the margins around the mounted woodcuts not affecting images. A beautiful copy of the DELUXE EDITION of a classic collection of pastoral poems and elegies by the Sicilian poet Theocritus c. 300 BCE. - c. 260 BCE known for his epic and pastoral works in Greek. The energetic woodcuts that illustrate each of the stories are the work of Jean-Baptiste Vettiner 1871-1935 a French artist and engraver who studied at the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux moved to Paris and became active in the early 1920s in the Société de la gravure sur bois originale Authentic Woodblock Engraving Society. His work on the Pastorales is considered one of his masterpieces the ADDITIONAL SET OF 41 WOODCUTS PRINTED ON JAPON mounted at the rear. René Kieffer unknown
1923réf. 351Paris: René Kieffer 1923. Limited Edition. Near fine. Jean-Baptiste Vettiner 1871-1935. 4to 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches 260 x 200 mm; pp. iv 156. 32 woodcuts by Jean-Baptiste Vettiner. Binding by René Kieffer in dark blue crushed morocco title in gilt with ONE OF THE ORIGINAL WOOD-BLOCKS HEIGHTENED WITH GILT AND INSET INTO THE UPPER COVER. Blue striped endpapers a slight one-inch split along the front hinge of the pastedown and ffep top edge gilt rest uncut blue silk ribbon page marker. Original printed upper paper wrapper and unprinted paper spine bound in. This is copy no. 251 of 500 copies. With an ORIGINAL PEN AND INK SKETCH BY THE ARTIST bound in. A beautiful copy of a classic collection of pastoral poems and elegies by the Sicilian poet Theocritus c. 300 B.C. - c. 260 B.C. know for his epic and pastoral works in Greek. The energetic woodcuts that illustrate each of the stories are the work of Jean-Baptiste Vettiner 1871-1935 a French artist and engraver who studied at the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux moved to Paris and became active in the early 1920s in the Société de la gravure sur bois originale Authentic Woodblock Engraving Society. His work on the Pastorales is considered one of his masterpieces and this copy is adorned by one of the original wood-blocks on the front cover of its handsome dark blue morocco binding by René Kieffer. René Kieffer unknown
réf. B9781498119856Paperback / softback. New. paperback
réf. 19235232like new. unknown
