Title
Selecta poemata Italorum qui Latine scripserunt. : Curâ cujusdam anonymi anno 1684 congesta, iterum in lucem data, unà cum aliorum Italorum operibus, / accurante A. Pope. Vol. I.[-II.]
Imprint
Londini: : Impensis J. & P. Knapton., M DCC XL. [1740]
Physical description
2 v. ([4], 47, [1], 53-270; [8], 252 p.) 18 cm (8vo)
Note
Signatures: t.1: pi² (-pi2) a⁴ B-C⁸ D⁶ E-R⁸ S⁴ -- t.2: pi² a² B-P⁸ R⁶.
Note
Each volume has an individual title-page printed in black and red.
Note
The 'Anonymous' of 1684 was Francis Atterbury; and his volume has the title: 'Anthologia [in Greek characters] seu Selecta quædam poemata Italorum qui Latine scripserunt.'; Pope has rearranged the poems, with additions and omissions. His two volumes contain 119 pieces, Atterbury's one volume 81." -- cf. Griffith.
Note
Two lines of errata at foot of a1v, volume I.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T124846
Citation/references note
Griffith, R. H. Alexander Pope : a bibliography (Austin, 1922-27), no. 517
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Reverend Herbert Hawes, with address “Rollestone Street, Salisbury.”.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
Mid 18th-century mottled brown calf; sewn on five supports (only three laced into boards); smooth spine with horizontal gilt fillets; gilt roll around board edges.
Subject
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
Added entry--name
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 editor.
Added entry--name
Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732 Anthologia seu selecta quædam poemata Italorum qui Latine scripserunt.
Added entry--name
Hawes, Herbert, -1837 former owner.
Added entry--name
John and Paul Knapton (Firm) publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
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