Shelfmark
Ic8.4.40
Title
Selecta ex Homeri Odyss. Hesiodo, Theocrito, Callimacho, Apollonio Rhod. Tyrtaeo, Sapphone, Erinna, Mimnermo, Solone, Simonide, Theognide, Xenophane, Ione, Pindaro, Euripide, Bacchylide, Critia, Callistrato, Bione, Moscho, Musaeo. Cum vulgata versione emendata, ac variis partim scholiastarum graecorum, partim doctorum recentiorum notis. In usum regiae scholae Etonensis..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Etonæ : typis J. Pote; veneunt etiam Londini, apud T. Pote., M DCC LXII. [1762]
Physical description
vi, [2], 231, [1], 172, [2] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Note
With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf.
Note
In this edition the fourth leaf is the index.
Note
The index (pages [vii-viii]) is bound at the end or following the title leaf in some copies; the half-title is bound following the title leaf in some copies.
Note
"Ex Hom. Odyssea" (caption title) has separate signatures and pagination.
Note
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2G⁴ ²B-²Z⁴.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T205268
Provenance
Ownership inscription on front free-endpaper: Richard Paul Jodrell Etonae alumnus 1768 / cum notis ab eadem alumno", with his book stamp "Jodrell".
Provenance
Extensive contemporary annotations in Greek, Latin and English at the margins and front and back free-endpapers, and in another slightly later hand at the margins and on four blanks pasted in at pp. 108-119 (first grouping); most heavily at the excerpt from Callimachus.
Provenance
Modern booklabel of Christopher Paul Claxton Stevens.
Binding
18th century full speckled calf; spine ruled in gilt in compartments formed by five raised bands; red leather spine label lettered "Selecta Graeca"; gilt roll along board edges; text block edges stained yellow.
Subject
Latin poetry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Pote, Joseph, 1704 - 1787 printer.
Added entry--name
Pote, Thomas, 1733 - 1794 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Jodrell, Richard Paul, 1745 - 1831 former owner.
Added entry--name
Stevens, Christopher Paul Claxton former owner.
Added entry--place
England Eton.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B52683