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(GREEK ANTHOLOGY.) Anthologia Graeca; sive, Poetarum graecorum lusus. Greek text based on the 1772-76 recension by Richard François Philippe Brunck, edited with extensive commentary by Friedrich Jacobs. Half-titles in final 8 volumes. 13 volumes. 8vo, 205x119 mm, first 12 volumes in contemporary sheep, spines brittle and badly worn, missing portions on Volumes 1, 2, and 12, Volume 12 covers detached, the rest starting, Volume 13 in intact contemporary calf; varying toning or browning with occasional heavy foxing. 19th-century armorial bookplates of Edward Shipperdson. Leipzig: Dyck, 1794-1814
first critical edition, a monumental work of scholarship by Jacobs, which remained standard into the 20th century. The first 5 volumes contain the text and index, the rest his commentary. Hoffmann I, 169 and 181. For the first edition of the Greek Anthology see lot 168.
