Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra Obscurum Poema. Cum Graeco Isaacii, Seu Potius Joannis, Tzetzae Commentario. Versiones, Variantes Lectiones, Emendationes, Adnotationes, & Indices necessarioos Adjecit Joannes Potterus.Editio secunda, priori Auctior

Lycophron; Potter, John [1674?-1747]; Tzetzes, John [ca. 1100-1180]

Published by Printed by John Owen at the Sheldon Theatre, Oxford, 1702

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Folio. Two parts in one. Greek & Latin. [6 ff.], 183 pp., [1 blank], [28 pp. index]; [5 ff.], 174, [15 pp. index], [1 addenda], [1 leaf publisher ads]. Engraved frontis. by M. Burghers. Engraved vignette of the Sheldon Theatre on first title. Woodcut vignette to second title. A nice crisp copy in contemporary calf, rebacked preserving spine label. Scuffing to calf, corners worn. From the library of Thomas Cushing Aylwin [1816-71], lawyer, politician, and hight court justice of Lower Canada, signed & dated in his hand. Second and best edition edited by John Potter, Bishop of Canterbury [1674?-1747]. The first was published in 1697. The Greek text is accompanied by Tzetze's commentaries, Scaliger's Latin translation, and the annotations of Meursius and Canter, as well as those of Potter himself. "These are beautiful editions, and much fuller than either of the preceding: the latter is the Edit. opt. and dedicated to John George Graevius, from whom Potter received the Basil edition of 1546, collated with an ancient vellum Ms., and by the assistance of which he was enabled to correct and enlarge the commentaries of Tzetzes in no less than two hundred places. The edition of 1702 contains a much more copious index of authors.". (Dibdin) "An everlasting monument of the learning of the illustrious editor." (Harwood). Brunet III 1248. Dibdin (4th edn). II pp. 209-10. Graesse iV 309. Seller Inventory # 010220

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Title: Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra Obscurum ...

Publisher: Printed by John Owen at the Sheldon Theatre, Oxford

Publication Date: 1702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 2nd Edition.