Author: [Martial] Martialis, Marcus Valerius: (Farnaby, Thomas, ed.:)
Title: Epigrammata.
Description: Amsterdami [Amsterdam]: Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1670. 12mo., pp.456. Illustrated title page, engraved initials and end-pieces. Internally very clean. Contemporary vellum school prize binding, title inked to spine, plain gilt borders, gilt centrepiece with arms of Amersfoot. Vellum a little greyed with some small spots and stains, ties lost, slight separation at gutter between ffep and title-page but sewing all intact, very good. Thomas Farnaby (1574/5–1647) was a celebrated schoolteacher and grammarian. 'The success of his establishment allowed Farnaby to devote himself to a long-held obsession: the systemization of the grammatical principles of classical Latin and Greek in print. Commencing with the satires of Juvenal and Persius (1612), he annotated many of the classical authors—Seneca, Martial, Lucan, Ovid, Virgil, and Terence—in a manner intended to render their works intelligible to schoolboys [...] He also corresponded with the Dutch intellectuals Gerardus Johannes Vossius and Daniel Heinsius, both of whom acknowledged their own debts to his learning.' (ODNB) His edition of Martial first appeared in London in 1615. Schweiger 598; Spoelder 4.

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