Treterus Thomas (2 results)

8vo, pp. 294; collating a-s8; woodcut printer's device on title page, woodcut initials; contemporary blindstamped pigskin, ties not preserved and the whole slightly rubbed and worn, endpapers renewed, top margin of title page with repair; but still a very good, sound and relatively clean copy. Adams H-923; Mills College Check List 2095; Riedel-Horatiana A-45; Voet 1382. Bound with: In Quinti Horatii Flacci Venusini, poetae lyrici, poemata omnia, rerum ac verborum locupletissimus Index, studio & labore Thomae Treteri. Antverpiae: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575. pp. 230, [2]; collating: A-O8, P4; printer's woodcut device on title page. Adams H-923; Mills College Check List 2095; Voet 2343. The third edition of the complete works of Horace printed by Plantin, accompanied by the only edition of the very comprehensive Index by Thomas Treterus, the Polish priest and humanist.

16. [I] Antverpiae, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi Regij , 1576, in-8, 162 x 105 mm, 294 pp + (2)nn pp(bl). Complete, collation identical with Voet n° 1382. Bound in contemporary (?) full calf, raised gilt spine with gilt, double gilt fillets on both covers. Lower end of spine with some damage, binding with some signs of use but technically sound. Interior with extensive annotations in ink, in small handwriting. Still a fine copy. [Bound with] Treterus' In Quinti Horatii Flacci.poemata omnia , rerum ac verborum locupletissimus index. [II] Antverpiae, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi Regij , 1576, in-8, 162 x 105 mm, 230 pp + (2)nn pp (errata ). Complete, collation identical with Voet n°2343. This is the third edition of Horatius' works published by Plantin. In order to match the text with the index prepared by the Polish priest Thomas Treterus, residing in Rome with Stanilas Hosius, Plantin had to copy exactly the Lyons edition by S. Gryphius of 1545. Which is what he did. After some difficulties and delays Plantin could finish Treterus' index on the 15th of March 1576 (as indicated in the colophon). This explains the difference of the year on the titlepages. (See Voet 1382 and 2343 with, as ever, his clear and detailed explanation on the genesis of this Horatius' edition and the separate index.).