Author
Dionysius, of Halicarnassus
Uniform title
De compositione verborum. Latin & Greek
Title
Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs peri syntheseōs onomatōn. = Dionysii Halicarnassei de structura orationis liber. Ex recensione Jacobi Uptoni, A.M. Collegii Regalis apud Cantab. nuper socii: Qui & veterem interpretationem emendavit, & notis integris Friderici Sylburgii selectisque aliorum, suas passim animadversiones adjecit. His accesserunt Simonis Bircovii exempla Latina, cum duobus indicibus..
Varying form of title
Parallel title: Dionysii Halicarnassei de structura orationis liber
Edition
Editio tertia, prioribus emaculatior..
Imprint
Londini, : privato auctoris sumptu excudebatur typis J. Bettenham, et prostat venalis apud G. Hawkins, in vico vulgò dicto Fleetstreet, anno aerae christianae M DCC XLVII. [1747]
Physical description
[10], 263, [5], 43, [25] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 20 cm (8vo)
Note
The first five words are transliterated from the Greek.
Note
With added engraved title page, signed "B. Lens delin: I. Sturt sculp:".
Citation/references note
ESTC, T136666
Reproduction note
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 5069, no. 4).
Language
Parallel Latin and Greek texts, with notes in Latin.
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
18th-century sprinkled brown calf over boards; sewn on five supports; spine with five raised bands, horizontal gilt fillets and gilt stamps; red leather spine label with "Dionysius per Upton"; blind roll around board edges; text block edges sprinkled red.
Subject
Oratory Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Upton, James, 1670-1749 editor.
Added entry--name
Bircovius, Simon editor.
Added entry--name
Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740 artist.
Added entry--name
Sturt, John, 1658-1730 engraver.
Added entry--name
Hawes, Herbert, -1837 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
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