Author: Statius, Publius Papinius:
Title: Sylvarum Libri V; Thebaidos Libri XII; Achilleidos Libri II. [Bound with:] Orthographia et flexus dictrionum Graecarum omnium apud Statius cum accentib. et generib. ex variis utriusque linguae authoribus.
Description: Parisiis [Paris]: apud Simonem Colinæum, 1530 8vo., ff. [ii], 263, [i]; [36]. Woodcut printer's device to title-page. Also contains the unpaginated "Orthographia et Flexus Dictionum Graecarum" at rear, with its own title and register. Title-page foxed with small abraded area (not affecting text), some sporadic light foxing but very good. Old semi-limp vellum, very plain, edges slightly overlapped. A couple of small stains, some smudgy marks, very good indeed. To front paste-down, engraved bookplate 'Bibliothèque de Mr Beaupré, Conseiller à la Cour de Nancy' of Jean-Nicolas Beaupré (c.1792-1869), a magistrate and antiquary. To ffep, ownership inscription of Henry M. (Simmons?) in a fairly old hand. Very faintly to title page, ownership inscription with the first name Paulus dated 1649, surname sadly illegible. A reprint of the 1519 Aldine edition, together with the 'Orthographia', an etymological dictionary of the Greek words in Statius. The two were first printed together in 1502 (the first Aldine edition of Statius and the first edition of the 'Orthographia') but are otherwise not found together in any of the early editions. Described by Dibdin as 'an elegant and very accurate edition, worthy of the reputation of Colinseus'. BM STC French (1470-1600), 408; Adams, S1673; Schweiger II, pt.ii, 963; Dibdin II (4th edn.), 226.

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