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ANACREON (?572-?488 B.C.). Anacreontis Teij odae, in Greek. Edited and translated by Henri Estienne. Paris: [?Guillaume Morel, for] Henri Estienne II, 1554.
4° (208 x 1146m). With final blank. Greek and roman types, printer's device [Schreiber 7] on title. Woodcut headpiece and ornamental initial on A1. (Annotations on one leaf washed.) Jansenist red morocco, gilt edges, by Lortic. Provenance: annotations in Greek and Latin in at least two hands, one of which is probably: -- Ambroise Firmin Didot [1790-1879, bookplate, his Greek and Latin notes in the margins (a few shaved)].
A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE EDITIO PRINCEPS of an immensely influential corpus of Greek lyrics, considered by Estienne and his Renaissance contemporaries to be the work of the ancient Greek poet Anacreon. They are instead poems in the style of Anacreon, whose own work on wine and women survives in short fragments only. As Schreiber has noted, the 'discovery' of these poems, in a manuscript owned by Thomas More's humanist friend, John Clements, caused a poetic revolution, which culminated in the 18th century with the Anacreontic Poets. The present copy was formerly owned by the renowned Hellenist, Ambroise Firmin Didot, son of the great printer, whose first translation of some of the Odes was published in 1835; his edition of the complete corpus in Greek and French was published in 1864. It was evidently rebound since his 1881 sale, where it is cited as bound with a copy of Guillon's Gnomon (1548) in green calf.
The Anacreontea is the first book published by Henri Estienne II and contains all three sizes of the grecs du roi types. Adams A-1001; Schreiber Estiennes, 139.
4° (208 x 1146m). With final blank. Greek and roman types, printer's device [Schreiber 7] on title. Woodcut headpiece and ornamental initial on A1. (Annotations on one leaf washed.) Jansenist red morocco, gilt edges, by Lortic. Provenance: annotations in Greek and Latin in at least two hands, one of which is probably: -- Ambroise Firmin Didot [1790-1879, bookplate, his Greek and Latin notes in the margins (a few shaved)].
A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE EDITIO PRINCEPS of an immensely influential corpus of Greek lyrics, considered by Estienne and his Renaissance contemporaries to be the work of the ancient Greek poet Anacreon. They are instead poems in the style of Anacreon, whose own work on wine and women survives in short fragments only. As Schreiber has noted, the 'discovery' of these poems, in a manuscript owned by Thomas More's humanist friend, John Clements, caused a poetic revolution, which culminated in the 18th century with the Anacreontic Poets. The present copy was formerly owned by the renowned Hellenist, Ambroise Firmin Didot, son of the great printer, whose first translation of some of the Odes was published in 1835; his edition of the complete corpus in Greek and French was published in 1864. It was evidently rebound since his 1881 sale, where it is cited as bound with a copy of Guillon's Gnomon (1548) in green calf.
The Anacreontea is the first book published by Henri Estienne II and contains all three sizes of the grecs du roi types. Adams A-1001; Schreiber Estiennes, 139.
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