Dionysii Longini De Sublimi Libellus - Graece conscriptus, Latino, Italico, & Gallico Sermone redditus, additis adnotationibus

Features

Author:  Pseudo Longino

Publisher:  Ex Typographia Johannis Alberti Tumermani

Place of printing:  Verona

Year of publication:  1733

Product Condition:
Volume in good condition. Contemporary full parchment binding with golden titles and friezes on the spine: traces of dust and small brown spots on the spine and plates; minimal damage to the dowel on the spine and corners of the plates. Cut along the outer edge in the paper lining of the front pasteboard. Traces of dust on the cuts. Cards well preserved, with very light browning. In several quinterns the lower margin of some cc appears withdrawn and frayed; we also point out: pale stain of humidity at the lower internal corner of cc from b1 to D3; brown spot near the lower margin of H2 and P2; lack at the lower external corner of T3 and in Ff2, and near the upper margin in Ll3, in all cases without impairment of text. Text in Greek, Latin, Italian and French

Pages:  (12),XXX,269, (25)

Format:  Fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  28
Width:  20

Description

Very accurate and elegant edition of the famous treatise of Pseudo Longinus organized in four columns which present the text in its Greek original, in the Latin translation compliant with the Oxoniense edition of 1710, in the Italian translation by Anton Francesco Gori and in the French one by Nicolas Boileau, with at the bottom there is a large array of philological notes and commentary on the text. Nice two-color title page with intaglio vignette. On the frontispiece to the dedication, a large portrait engraved in an architectural frame. Drop caps and finials engraved on copper. At the end of the volume Fragment of Longinus and Indices

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