Dictys Cretensis et Dares Phrygius De Bello et Excidio Trojæ, In usum Serenissimi Delphini, cum interpretatione Annæ Daceriæ. Accedunt in hac Nova Editione Notæ Variorum integræ; Nec non Josephus Iscanus, Cum Notis Sam. Dresemii [...]

Full title: Dictys Cretensis et Dares Phrygius De Bello et Excidio Trojæ, In usum Serenissimi Delphini, cum interpretatione Annæ Daceriæ. Accedunt in hac Nova Editione Notæ Variorum integræ; Nec non Josephus Iscanus, Cum Notis Sam. Dresemii. Numismatibus & Gemmis, Historiam illustrantibus exornavit Lud. Smids, M. D. Dissertationem de Dictye Cretensi præfixit Jac. Perizonius.

Authors: Dictys Cretensis (pseud.) ; Dares Phrygius (pseud.) ; Dacier, Anne (ed.) ; Dresemius, Samuel (ed.) ; Iscanus, Josephus [Joseph, of Exeter] ; Smids, Ludolph (ed.) ; Perizonius, Jacobus ; Mercier, Josias (ed.) ; von Barth, Kaspar (ed.) ; Obrecht, Ulrich (ed.) ; Vinding, Paul (ed.) ; Borch, Ole (ed.)

4to. pp. [lxxxiv], 177, [75] indexes; 54; [22]; 168, [8] (pagination including engraved frontispiece representing Arion and the dolphin surmounted by the arms of the Dauphin, plus six plates at the end). Signatures: π2 *2 (*1 als *3) 2*-7*4 8*2 a-c4 A-3R4. Contemporary binding of tan morocco (probably Dutch but conceivably English). Covers with gilt roll-tool borders, marbled endpapers and edges, gilt spine, dark olive morocco label, silk marker. Title in red and black, engraved headpieces. 18th- or early 19th-century shelf-label of an unidentified British country house library; inscriptions by G.F. Reckitt, Bristol, 1921, label of Robert J. Hayhurst and label and inscription of R.W. Hunt (1908-79, Oxford scholar and librarian), who bought the work in 1932.

First published in 1680, this is the Delphine edition of Dictys Cretensis, edited by Anne Dacier (1647-1720), the great French female classical scholar. See Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées; seconde édition, considérablement augmentée, publiée par MM. Gustave Brunet et Pierre Jannet. Paris, 1870 ed., II, col. 699.

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