Shelfmark
Ic8.4.34
Title
Epigrammatum delectus ex omnibus tum veteribus, tum recentioribus poetis accurate decerptus, Cum Dissertatione De verâ Pulchritudine & adumbratâ, in quâ, ex certis Principiis, Rejectionis & Selectionis Epigrammatum causae redduntur. Adjectae sunt Elegantes Sententiae ex antiquis Poetis parcè, sed severiore judicio, selectae. Cum brevioribus Sententiis ac Proverbiis Ex Auctoribus Graecis & Latinis. Quibus subjungitur alterius delectûs specimen ex nuper is maximè Poëtis ab Electoribus praetermissis. Editio tertia-decima, nuperis longè emendatior. In usum Scholæ Etonensis.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : impensis J. Rivington, in Coemeteris Paulino; J. Richardson, in Pater-Noster-Row; & T. Pote, in Fleet Street, MDCCLXII. [1762]
Physical description
[48],311,[1];24p. : ill. ; 12⁰.
Note
Compiled by Claude Lancelot, with a dissertation by Pierre Nicole to whom the whole work is sometimes attributed.
Note
The first leaf contains the engraved arms of Eton.
Note
Contains advertisement for books printed by J. Richardson.
Note
Woodcut head and tailpieces.
Citation/references note
ESTC T115484.
Provenance
Early ink ownership inscription erased from frontispiece and title-page; ownership inscription to front pastedown: 'Andover' (i.e., Charles Nevinson Howard, Viscount Andover [1775-1800]).
Provenance
Ms. bookseller's codes in pencil on rear pastedown.
Binding
18th-century brown leather; title lettered to spine in ink; edges speckled in red.
Copy-specific note
Front free endpaper partially excised.
Copy-specific note
Eight-line manuscript inscription on front pastedown, giving two Latin epigrams: (1) compares the waxing and waning of the moon to changes in women's modde, attributed to an anonymous Etonian when published in The Critical Review 39 (1775); (2) notes epigrams should be like a bee -- short, sweet and with a sting, from Vazakerley's Poemata varia.
Copy-specific note
Early manuscript pencil inscription to rear free endpaper; early ink inscription ('k/l' to rear pastedown.
Subject
Quotations.
Subject
Epigrams, Latin.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B51450