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[005250] Heskin, Johannis (Notes); Bionis, Smyrnaei and Moschi, Syracusani. [Greek Title] Bionis Smyrnaei et Moschi Syracusani Quae Supersunt. Oxonii: Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1748. First Thus. 8vo. Hardback. Good. [204]p; [pi4, A-Aa4, Bb2]. Later straight grain morocco, smooth back, spine divided into six panels by gilt single rule, authors to second panel, covers with single line border, single line to edges, rope roll to inner edges, a.e.g. with stormont marbled endpapers
Spine slightly dulled, minor chipping to spine ends, front outer joint rubbed with minor chipping but holding well, corners rubbed. Text lightly browned, with some light foxing, but generally fairly clean. Two former owner’s names to ffep, the first T. Broadhurst (possibly T.[homas] Broadhurst (1768-1851), classical scholar); the other being Laetitia Parker the classicist, with a small piece of paper in Greek, probably by her, laid in; and also with a new year card from the classicist Gilbert Murray and his wife Mary
Parallel Latin / Greek text, with the notes by John Heskin on the bucolic poets, Bion of Smyrna and Moschus of Syracuse
Dibdin I: 348, a “very elegant edition, and much more critical and correct than that of Schwebelius”; Harwood, page 46; Moss I: 219, a “scarce, correct, and esteemed edition”; Schweiger III: 72
