(HOMER) Wolf Friedrich August Prolegomena ad Homerum Vol

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(HOMER.) Wolf, Friedrich August. Prolegomena ad Homerum . . . Volumen I [all published]. [6], 280 pages, including half-title. bound with: Homer. Homeri et Homeridarum opera et reliquiae . . . Pars I. Ilias [all published]. Greek text. xxviii, 248, 300 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 201x122 mm, contemporary 1/2 vellum, somewhat soiled and worn; contents browned, scattered ink blots, upper inner corner of free endpaper excised. Halle: Orphanage press, 1795; 1794

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first edition of Wolf's groundbreaking study of the authorship and transmission of the Homeric epics. "Modern classical studies, in the sense of a comprehensive approach to all aspects of antiquity, were created by Wolf" (OCGL). Hoffmann II, 320; Printing and the Mind of Man 248; Reynolds & Wilson, page 198 ("one of the most important books in the whole history of classical scholarship").