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Elzevir edition of Homer's Works

Elzevir edition of Homer's Works

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Title:
Elzevir edition of Homer's Works

Date of publication:

  • 1656

    • Binding:

  • later calf

    • Editor:

  • Cornelis Schrevel

    • Publisher:

  • Louis Elzevir

    • Author:

  • Homer

    • [Homerou Ilias kai Odysseia, kai eis autas scholia, e exegesis Didymou] Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in easdem scholia, sive interpretatio Didymi. Cum Latina versione accuratissima, indiceque Græco locupletissimo rerum ac variantium lection

    This Elzevir edition includes the Batrachomyomachia (Battle between Frogs and Mice) and Homeric Hymns once attributed to Homer; and the ancient scholia of Didymus Chalcenterus, reprinted here for the first time since their first priting of 1517. Read more

    Edited by Cornelis Schrevel for Louis Elzevir, Dibdin suggests that early scholars gave it mixed reviews, but it is a typically handsome product of the press. 

    Condition & Materials
    4to. 2 volumes bound as 5, pp. (xvi), 244, 245-476, 477-716; 286, 287-536, (xliv). Parallel Greek text with Latin translation, engraved architectural title-page to first volume, woodcut printer's device to second volume, woodcut initials throughout, occasional trivial spotting. 

    English panelled calf, circa 1700, with 19th century lettering pieces; minor wear.

    Armorial bookplate of Beilby Thompson of Escrick Park in Yorkshire; probably the father (1686-1750 High Sheriff of Yorkshire) rather than his son of the same name (landowner and MP, 1742-1799) as ownership inscriptions on the free end-paper dated 1760 and 1761 indicate that the book passed to Richard Thompson (1744-1820), a son of Beilby senior from his second marriage.

    References
    Dibdin, Classics, II, p. 53 Read less