Pindar: (Cookesley, William Gifford, ed.:) Carmina Etonae [Eton]: E.P. Williams, 1851; 1853. Second edition. 2 parts bound as 1, 8vo., pp. [vi], 218, [ii], xiii, [i], 265, [i]. Text in Greek, notes in English, useful preface to the second edition, some engraved illustrations in the text. A little light spotting but very good. Publisher's dark blue cloth, printed paper title label to spine. Rubbed, label toned and chipped, some scuffs, end caps and corners worn, endpapers a little foxed and spilt at hinges but boards holding firm, still very good overall. Ownership inscription of J.S. Lewis to ffep. To title-page a small ink stamp seemingly in the shape of a bishop's mitre. Published at Eton and dedicated to Edward Craven Hawtrey (1789 - 1862), master. Contains Pars 1. Odas Olympicas and Pars 2. Odas Pythias, with no more published in this edition. Ref: 54772show full image..
Pinter, Harold: The Dwarfs, A Novel. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. First, limited edition. Signed by the author. 8vo., pp.[x], 183, [i]. Lightly toned. Quarter pale terracotta cloth, gilt title to spine, marbled boards, near fine. With original glassine wrapper tattered at edges but whole. 'One of 150 numbered copies of the First Edition of The Dwarfs signed by the author and specially bound. No.49.' Signed beneath by Pinter. Ref: 54719show full image..
Pinter, Harold: [Fowles, John, foreword:] The Screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Woman. London: Jonathan Cape in association with Eyre Methuen, 1981. First UK edition, signed by John Fowles. 8vo., pp.xvi, 104. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Endcaps a bit creased, endpapers lightly toned, very good indeed. Dust jacket a little creased at head and tail of spine, small bookseller's label stuck over price on inner flap, very good indeed. Signature of John Fowles to title-page. Two address ink stamps of a previous owner to front pastedown. Label of Serendip Books of Lyme Regis to front flap. Pinter wrote several screenplay adaptations of others' works, including The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The Trail (1993) and Sleuth (2007). This adaptation of Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman was nominated for an Oscar in 1981. Ref: 54986show full image..
Pitts, Brent A. (trans.): The Anglo-Norman Gospel Harmony: A Translation of the Estoire de l'Evangile (Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral C6.1.1, Liber niger). Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 8vo., pp. 156. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 453 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and Volume 7 in The French of England Translation ACMRS series. Ref: 53710
Plato: (Jowett, B[enjamin], ed. & trans.:) The Dialogues of Plato Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions. Revised and corrected throughout, with marginal analyses and an index of subjects and proper names. Oxford: University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1924; 1931; 1931; 1931; 1931. Third edition, reprinted. 5 vols. 8vo., pp.xxxvii, [i], 594; [vi], 576; [viii], ccxxxi, [i], 543, [i]; vi, 645, [i]; ccxxxviii, [ii], 541, [i]. Clean and bright internally. Red publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spines, blind-stamped borders. Spines a sunned and endcaps creased and a little worn, top edge slightly dusty, very good overall. To ffep vol. IV, pencilled ownership inscription of Thomas Brown, Merton College Oxford. Plato's Dialogues translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817?1893), master of Baliol College, Oxford, 'revised and corrected throughout, with marginal analyses and an index of subjects and proper names.' '[Jowett's] first intention was to produce a commentary on the Republic. But, concluding that this text was to be understood only through an analysis of Plato's other works, he commenced what eventually became his translations of the dialogues, with introductions in which many of his own theological and philosophical ideas were embedded. The translation appeared in 1871 in four volumes and in a revised edition in five volumes in 1875. There followed a translation of Thucydides, with notes on the Greek text, in 1881, and of Aristotle's Politics in 1885. A third edition of his translations of Plato appeared in 1892, but the edition of the Republic, which had been in a sense the foundation and starting point of all his work as an editor and translator of the Greek classics, was still unfinished at his death and was completed and published by his friend and biographer Lewis Campbell. For thirty years the work had occupied the chief place among his interests. [...] His admirers thought that his translations of Plato and Thucydides superseded all previous translations in elegance and polish, and even some modern translators have been content to use Jowett's version as a basis for their own work. But one of his twentieth-century successors in the chair has asserted that any page of Jowett's translation of Plato 'will supply some evidence of Housman's stern judgment' (Lloyd-Jones, 16).' (ODNB) Ref: 55119show full image..
Plautus, Titus Maccius: (Gronovius, J.F., ed.:) Comoediae. Accedit commentarius [...] Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Hackiana, 1669. First Edition. 2 vols. bound as 1. 8vo., pp. [xxiv], 624, [ii], 625-1220, [lii]. Engraved title-page to vol.I, title-page with printer's device to vol.II. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Some small annotations in an old hand to ffep (one dated 1729), occasional other pages (eg. p.528) and 2 small pages of notepaper loosely inserted. Very occasional light spotting towards fore-edge, a few tiny ink spots. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, edges sprinkled red. Vertical split to vellum at spine neatly repaired, some marks and smudges, turn-in lifting at upper board, first few leaves a bit creased at fore-edge, very good. Ownership inscription of E. (Bersem?) in an old hand to title-page. The penultimate in a run of Gronovius' variorum edition of Plautus (the first in 1664, the final and optimal in 1684), with notes by him and others, and new readings from 6 MSS. Dibdin (4th edn.) II 312. Schweiger III 766. Graesse V 329. Ref: 54398show full image..
[Plautus] Plautus, Titus Maccius: (Pareus, Philippus, ed.:) Comoediae XX superstites et deperditarum fragmenta. Francof. [Frankfurt]: Philip Jacob Fisher, 1641. 8vo. 3 parts in 1, pp. [224], 826, [2], 31, [1], 85, [1], with engraved title. Title in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut vignette to verso of last. Title dusty, some scattered foxing or dampstaining, small paper flaw and minor clean tear to outer blank margin of two leaves. Contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges. 'The last edition of [Johannes Philippus] Par? in which were corrected several criticised passages of the previous editions' (Graesse V, 328-29). In addition to Plautus's twenty comedies, it features numerous fragments, 'Querolus' and 'Animadversionum ablegmina'. Graesse V, 328-29. Not in Dibdin. Ref: 53281show full image..
[Pliny the Elder:] Plinius Secundus, Gaius: (De Laet, J., ed.:) Historiae Naturalis Libri XXXVII. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1635. First edition thus. 3 vols., 12mo, pp. [xxiv], 654, [xviii]; 631, [xvii]; 582, [xviii]. Engraved titlepage, small woodcut portrait of Pliny. With 'variae lectiones' and indexes at end of each vol. Slight toning, occasional minor spots, titles dusty, 1: one lower outer blank corner minimally torn, 2: small loss to lower blank margin of one leaf. Full blue morocco c.1800, signed by C. Hering (binder's ticket), blind-tooled, straight-grained calf doublures with gilt edges, raised bands, spines gilt-lettered, a.e.g. (boards and joints rubbed, free endpapers soiled). Later annotation to original rear endpaper. The first Elzevier edition of Pliny's 'Natural History', which became extremely popular with later collectors. De Laet was a Leiden historian and editor who wrote or produced a number of texts for the Elzevir press. In the dedication, to the lawyer and French royal counsellor Jerome Bignon (1589-1656), he states that he drew on the edition of Claude Saumaise. Willems 428; Dibdin (3rd edn.) II, 323. Ref: 53181show full image..
[Pliny the Younger] Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius: (Boxhorn, Marcus Zuerius, ed.:) Epistol? et Panegyricus. Editio Nova. Lugd. Batav. [Leiden]: Joan. & Danielem Elsevier, 1653. 12mo., pp.[xxiv], 404, [xxviii]. Title-page in red and black with printer's woodcut device, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Includes index. Very slightly toned, but clean and bright. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, board edges slightly overlapped, edges sprinkled blue. Spine a little greyed, a few small stains, very good. To ffep, ownership inscription of J. Wijsman dated April 1936 and pencilled bookseller's notes. This edition is a line-by-line reprint of the 1640 edition. Willems 732. Ref: 55090show full image..
Pollux, Julius: (Lederlin, J.H.; Hemsterhuys, T.): Onomasticon Graece & Latine. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Ex Officina Wetsteniana, 1706. 2 vols. in 1. Folio, pp. [viii], 48, 683, [I]; [ii], 687-1388, [xvi], 178, [x] + additional engraved title-page, signed: I. Mulder, delin; W. Broen, sculp., and folding numismatic plate opposite p.1027. Engraved frontispiece (included in register): arms of Amsterdam and view of Amsterdam, 10 shields, signed: Mulder, fec.. Half-title to each vol., title-page vol. I in red and black, woodcut initals. Text in Latin and Greek in parallel columns. Occasional very light spotting, final 7 leaves dampstained at fore-edge margin, very good. Contemporary gilt panelled vellum, central gilt coat of arms of Haarlem to both boards. Some light smudgy marks, ties lost, very good. An interesting and important edition of the 2nd-century AD Greek thesaurus of Iulius Pollux, which had been begun and abandoned by Jean-Henri Lederlin (1672-1737). His replacement as editor, Tiberius Hemsterhuys (1685-1766), professor at Amsterdam, has "the honour of reviving the study of Greek in the Netherlands" (Sandys). For this edition he wrote for advice to Richard Bentley, the expert on Greek metre, but received his suggestions after the book went to press. Bentley later sent a long letter giving corrections to the texts of the fragments of comedy as found here in book 10. "So deep was [Hemsterhuys's] distress that he determined to abandon Greek for ever, and for two months did not dare to open a Greek book" (ibid.) Pollux is a source of information on many subjects, including theatre, the Athenian constitution, and the thirty-three terms of abuse for a tax-collector. The text survived only in interpolated copies of an early interpolated epitome. Schweiger I 270 "Gute Ausg."; Sandys II 449; Spoelder 1. Ref: 54329show full image..
