Author: Euripides: (Valckenaer, Lodewijk Caspar, ed.:)
Title: Tragoedia Phoenissae. interpretationem addidit H. Grotii; graeca castigavit e mstis, atqve adnotationibvs instrvxit, scholia svbiecit, Lvdovicvs Casp. Valckenaer. [UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH] Tragoedia Hippolytus quam, Latino carmine conversam a Georgio Ratallero, adnotationibu
Publication: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: apud Samuelem et Joannem Luchtmans; Ioann. Luzac, & Ioann. Le Mair, 1802; [1768], 1767.
Description: 2 vols., 4to., pp.[iv], xxiii, [i], 452, 196; xxviii, 322, [xviii], [viii], 311, [i]. Engraved head-piece to vol. II, p.iii. Occasional spots of foxing, some patchy toning toward the end of the first work. Vellum prize bindings with printed certificate to each vol., gilt spines with raised bands, gilt borders, frames and centrepieces with arms of Amsterdam, green silk ties intact bar two, edges sprinkled red and blue. A few smudgy marks to vellum, some small areas of gilt a little worn, very good indeed. To each title-page, ink stamp reading R. K. Kerr van den H. Joseph le Haarlem. Prize certificates made out to N.J.A. Steins Bisschop, both dated 1817.
Reprinted from Valckenaer's "masterly work on Euripides" (Sandys), first printed by Brouwer at Franeker in 1755. Containing the version of Grotius and including the first printing of parts of the Scholia, "enriched by every thing which can render it most acceptable to a critical student", this reprint has been "improved and enlarged" to be "deserving of strong recommendation" (Dibdin).
Bibliography: Dibdin I, 545 & 548-9; Hoffman II, 78; Schweiger I, 118; Spoelder, 491 (Amsterdam 10).
Reference Number: [55092]
Price: £800
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