Lord Grenville's copy.- Catullus, Tibullus &
Lord Grenville's copy.- Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Catullus Tibullus Propertius, edited by Victor Giselinus, collation: A-L8, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, lacking final blank, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1569 bound with Propertius (Sextus Aurelius) Elegiarum Libri IIII, edited by Willem Canter, collation: A-I8, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and tail-piece, lacking final blank, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1569, together 2 works in 1 vol., some staining and spotting, little closely trimmed at head, early 19th century dark green calf, blind-stamped arms of Grenville to covers, upper cover stained/faded, rubbed, 8vo (121 x 75mm.)
⁂ Lord Grenville's copy of the rare first annotated Plantin edition of Catullus. It was edited by Giselinus, who had also edited Prudentius and Ovid for Plantin, as well as working as a proof-reader. The printed side-notes mostly give variant readings by Pontanus, Turnebus, Muretus, Fabricius, Statius, Scaliger, and others. The Tibullus is edited by Theodorus Pulmannus and the separately paginated Propertius by Willem Canter.
Provenance: William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron (1759-1834) British Prime Minister (1806-1807) and Chancellor of Oxford University (1810-1834). The stamps used for the binding were cut for the Chancellor's Prize books of Oxford University.
Literature: Neither in Adams; Voet 934 & 2112.
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Lord Grenville's copy.- Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Catullus Tibullus Propertius, edited by Victor Giselinus, collation: A-L8, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, lacking final blank, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1569 bound with Propertius (Sextus Aurelius) Elegiarum Libri IIII, edited by Willem Canter, collation: A-I8, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and tail-piece, lacking final blank, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1569, together 2 works in 1 vol., some staining and spotting, little closely trimmed at head, early 19th century dark green calf, blind-stamped arms of Grenville to covers, upper cover stained/faded, rubbed, 8vo (121 x 75mm.)
⁂ Lord Grenville's copy of the rare first annotated Plantin edition of Catullus. It was edited by Giselinus, who had also edited Prudentius and Ovid for Plantin, as well as working as a proof-reader. The printed side-notes mostly give variant readings by Pontanus, Turnebus, Muretus, Fabricius, Statius, Scaliger, and others. The Tibullus is edited by Theodorus Pulmannus and the separately paginated Propertius by Willem Canter.
Provenance: William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron (1759-1834) British Prime Minister (1806-1807) and Chancellor of Oxford University (1810-1834). The stamps used for the binding were cut for the Chancellor's Prize books of Oxford University.
Literature: Neither in Adams; Voet 934 & 2112.
