PHAEDRUS.
Phaedri Augusti Caesaris Liberti Fablarum Aesopiarum Libri quinque. Notis doctorum selectioribs, novisque passim & conjecturis & explicationibus illstrati. Opera Tho. Johnson, A.M. In usum Scholae Etonensis. Ed. secunda.
London and Eton, for B. Walford, M. Atkins, and J. Slater, 1708. 8vo. With a separately inserted leaf with the printed coat-of-arms of Eton College in between the title-page and the preface "To the reader", title printed in red and black. Mottled calf over boards, ribbed spine gilt in compartments with red title label lettered in gold. [4], XXXV, 88, [32] pp.
€ 500
Second edition of this English Schoolbook for use at Eton College in the Burman redaction with prefaces by the famous philologist from Utrecht Petrus Burman (1668-1741), Joannes Ludovicus Praschius (1637-1690), a magistrate from Regenburg, Joannes Scheffer (1635-1681), one of Swedens most important philologists, whose Vita of Phaedrus is also included) and Tanaquillus Faber (1615-1672), a French philologist and Professor of Greek at the University of Saumur. The Fables are printed in one column with the notes and annotations in two columns underneath. The first edition is published in 1701.
Owners' entries of J.J. Ballard (médicin princ. des Camps et Armées and P. Germain. A few wormholes in the last 30 pp. Schwabe/Barbier, 74.
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