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Milan; 1479.] TERENTIANUS MAURUS.
The reverse is blank. The signatures, with the exception of a and b,
run in sixes, a having 4, and b 8, leaves. It now remains to subjoin an
observation or two upon the rarity of this impression ; premising, that
the work itself will be found reprinted in Putschius’s Corpus Grammati-
corum Veterum, Hanov. 1605, 4to.—but from the Frankfort edition of it
.
by Jacobus Micyllus, 1584, 8vo.
We have noticed the opinion entertained by the old bibliographers
and collectors of the extreme rarity of this work. Dr. John Taylor,
the well-known editor of Demosthenes and Lysias, bought a copy of it
‘ out of the Harleian Collection, for 41. 4s.; which, long before he was
in easy circumstances, an hundred guineas would not have got from
him,’ Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes of the XVIIIth Century; vol. iv. p. 514.
Dr. Taylor’s own opinion of the rarity of this book, may be gathered
from the following ms. note introduced into his own copy of it. ‘ This
is judged to be the only copy of this edition in England, if not in the
whole world. If so, it is worth any money. Dr. Askew could find no
copy of it in his travels over Europe, though he made it his earnest
and particular search in every Library which he had an opportunity of
consulting, John Taylor, Cantabrig.’ Dr. Askew afterwards bought
this identical copy; and at the sale of his books in 1775, it was pur-
chased by Dr. Hunter for 19,1. 12s. See Bibl. Ashev. n°. 3337- This
copy is now at Glasgow, with the entire library of Dr. Hunter. The
note of Taylor was transcribed into the catalogue of Askew’s books,
and is iuserted in MS, in the present copy, by Count Reviczky. Oldys,
who wrote the notes* in the Illrd and IVth volumes of the Harleian
Catalogue, has not made any mention, that I can discover, of this book,
between page 56 and 101 of volume Illrd.
Maittaire gives only the colophon of the impression: Annal. Typog.
vol. i. p. 636. Both Saxius and Panzer refer to Maittaire ; the former
adding the authority of Fabricius, (already cited) and the latter, those
of Saxius and the Soubise and Askew Catalogues. Hist. Lit. Typog.
Mediol. p. dcii, note y; Annal. Typog. vol. ii. p. 83. La Serna San-
tander has omitted it; and Brunet is brief, but pertinent; Manuel du
Libraire, vol. ii. p. 543. A perfect copy of this impression was pur-
chased by the Revd. Dr. C. Burney at the Pinelli sale; Bibl. Pinell. vol. ii.
n°, 4990. The present was in the Soubise Collection. Mr. Wodhull
* Ihese English notes are only translations of the Latin ones wliicli appear in the sirst
and second volumes, and which were written by Maittaire.
Milan; 1479.] TERENTIANUS MAURUS.
The reverse is blank. The signatures, with the exception of a and b,
run in sixes, a having 4, and b 8, leaves. It now remains to subjoin an
observation or two upon the rarity of this impression ; premising, that
the work itself will be found reprinted in Putschius’s Corpus Grammati-
corum Veterum, Hanov. 1605, 4to.—but from the Frankfort edition of it
.
by Jacobus Micyllus, 1584, 8vo.
We have noticed the opinion entertained by the old bibliographers
and collectors of the extreme rarity of this work. Dr. John Taylor,
the well-known editor of Demosthenes and Lysias, bought a copy of it
‘ out of the Harleian Collection, for 41. 4s.; which, long before he was
in easy circumstances, an hundred guineas would not have got from
him,’ Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes of the XVIIIth Century; vol. iv. p. 514.
Dr. Taylor’s own opinion of the rarity of this book, may be gathered
from the following ms. note introduced into his own copy of it. ‘ This
is judged to be the only copy of this edition in England, if not in the
whole world. If so, it is worth any money. Dr. Askew could find no
copy of it in his travels over Europe, though he made it his earnest
and particular search in every Library which he had an opportunity of
consulting, John Taylor, Cantabrig.’ Dr. Askew afterwards bought
this identical copy; and at the sale of his books in 1775, it was pur-
chased by Dr. Hunter for 19,1. 12s. See Bibl. Ashev. n°. 3337- This
copy is now at Glasgow, with the entire library of Dr. Hunter. The
note of Taylor was transcribed into the catalogue of Askew’s books,
and is iuserted in MS, in the present copy, by Count Reviczky. Oldys,
who wrote the notes* in the Illrd and IVth volumes of the Harleian
Catalogue, has not made any mention, that I can discover, of this book,
between page 56 and 101 of volume Illrd.
Maittaire gives only the colophon of the impression: Annal. Typog.
vol. i. p. 636. Both Saxius and Panzer refer to Maittaire ; the former
adding the authority of Fabricius, (already cited) and the latter, those
of Saxius and the Soubise and Askew Catalogues. Hist. Lit. Typog.
Mediol. p. dcii, note y; Annal. Typog. vol. ii. p. 83. La Serna San-
tander has omitted it; and Brunet is brief, but pertinent; Manuel du
Libraire, vol. ii. p. 543. A perfect copy of this impression was pur-
chased by the Revd. Dr. C. Burney at the Pinelli sale; Bibl. Pinell. vol. ii.
n°, 4990. The present was in the Soubise Collection. Mr. Wodhull
* Ihese English notes are only translations of the Latin ones wliicli appear in the sirst
and second volumes, and which were written by Maittaire.