Late 18th Century Volume Set, Green Morocco Leather Sophocles, Tragoediae Septem - 3 Books

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Title: Sophoclis Tragoediae Septem cum Scholiis Veteribus Versione Latina et Notis Accedunt Deperditorum Dramatum Fragmenta.

Author: Sophocles [Sophoclis], Rich. Franc. … more Title: Sophoclis Tragoediae Septem cum Scholiis Veteribus Versione Latina et Notis Accedunt Deperditorum Dramatum Fragmenta.

Author: Sophocles [Sophoclis], Rich. Franc. Phil. Brunck [edited by].

About this Item: 1514 Pp. [Tome I;432 p., Tome II; 549 p., Tome III; 533 p.] Publication date 1788. Three volume complete limited edition set [one of 250 sets], text in Greek and Latin. Book description: Contemporary green morocco, gilt, spines gilt in compartments, g.e. inner dentelles. Provenance: small oval gilt-stamped book-label of Ambroise Firmin Didot (Publisher) in each volume on inner front board and with old ink manuscript note by him on front free end paper of tome I. Condition: Very good + to near fine; spines a little faded, very slightly rubbed at edges. Dimensions: 8vo; 9 3/16" x 6" x 1 1/2" each volume.

NOTE: Didbin wrote "The popularity of Brunck's edition was very great; and was exceeded by no work to which that celebrated name was attached. But the dearness of the quarto edition prevented many from purchasing it. Brunck, therefore, brought out an octavo edition, in three vols. 1786-8: containing the Scholia and indexes, fully as complete as the quarto. In the year 1789 [this edition date 1788] he published another octavo edition, in three vols., very handsomely printed, of which only 250 copies were struck off, at his own expense. In this latter edition, the Scholia of Triclinius, and other recent scholia, are omitted, and some fresh notes are added," (Rare & Valuable Editions of Greek and Latin Classics, 4th ed.,Vol. 2, p.415). Richard Francis Frederick Brunck (1729-1803), a celebrated Greek scholar and critic, had such admiration of the authors he edited that he conceived their writings to have been originally immaculate, and therefore attributed to the copyists whatever errors he discovered. Scarce and even more so extraordinary that the provenance originated with the publisher Ambroise Firmin Didot. OCLC shows only five complete sets: BL, BN France, Nat. Lib. Denmark, Brown, Univ. Nebraska; also one in the Nat. Lib. of Greece.
Scarce. OCLC shows only five complete sets: BL, BN France, Nat. Lib. Denmark, Brown, Univ. Nebraska; also one in the Nat. Lib. of Greece. less