Anakreontos Tēiou Melē : praefixo commentario quo poëtae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. : Additis var. lect.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anacreon.

Contributor:

Amaduzzi, Giovanni Cristoforo, 1740-1792.

Bodoni, Giambattista, 1740-1813., Printer.

Turner, Evan H., Donor.

Turner, Albert Morton., Former owner.

Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Former owner.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Poems. Latin & Greek

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Odes, Greek.

Poetry, Ancient.

Genre:

Poems -- 1791.

Physical Description:

[4], cxviii, [2], 111, [1] p. : port. ; 16 cm. (8vo)

Other Title:

Melē

Place of Publication:

Parmae [i.e. Parma, Italy] : In aedibvs palatinis, 1791.

Notes:

Engraved title vignette (portrait).

Text printed in capitals.

Title romanized from Greek.

Printed by Giambattista Bodoni. Cf. dedicatory leaf.

Edited by G.C. Amaduzzi.

Commentary in Latin (p. I-CXVIII) with Greek text of odes (p. 1-78).

Some lyrical poems have been incorrectly attributed to Anacreon and are known as Anacreontea.

"Varietas lectionis": p. [79]-111.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Three generations of book collectors," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2012.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006, from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).

Athenaeum copy has clipping of catalog (April 1956) with description of this and other titles available from Goodspeed's Bookshop (Boston); also with pencilled note stating that this is 1 of 12 copies (edition of 165 copies) printed on "carta d'Annonay" and that bookplate on front pastedown belonged to the 1st Marquis of Lansdowne; this copy printed on paper watermarked with a footed cross; bound in red morocco.

Cited in:

Brooks, H.C. Bibl. Bodoni, 422

Brunet, I:252

Contains:

Anacreontea.