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LONGINUS, Dionysius

Quae supersunt Graece et Latine. Recensuit, notasque suas atque animadversiones adjectis Joannes Toupius
Oxford
Clarendon Press
1778
€120 - €180

4to, [8]-26-254-[6] pp. (some spotting). Nice large paper copy. Printed in an elegant wide-spaced Greek type. (some spotting). Richly gilt hard-grained green morocco (rubbed, def. at head & tail), covers with decorative ornamental gilt ruled border, richly gilt spine, gilt sides, all edges gilt

Beautifully printed Greek edition of the works of the 3rd-c. Greek philosopher Longinus, incl. the famous literary treatise "On the sublime". With a Latin trsl. by Zachary Pearce and notes by Jonathan Toupe (1713-1785) and the Leiden scholar David Ruhnkenius (1723-1798). The introduction consists of a reprint of the 1776 Leiden dissertation of Petrus Joannes Schardam. Gilt collector's mark on covers (initials "C Y")

Classics Greek