LONGINUS. Dionysius Longinus, De Sublimitate, ex recensione Zachariae Pearcii. Animadversiones interpretum excerpsit suas et novam versionem adiecit Sam. Fr. Nathan. Morus, Philos. Professor Lips. Leipzig (Lipsiae), Sumt. Hered. Weidmann et Reichii, 1769. 8vo. (II),XXXIV,288,(36 index) p. Half calf. 21 cm (Ref: VD18 10363009; D. St. Marin no. 50, citing De Tipaldo: 'This edition has also the Latin version, which is rightly considered a masterpiece' (...) An elegant and useful edition, superior to all earlier ones'; Hoffmann 2,527; Schweiger 1,190; Moss 2,226/227; Brunet 3,1152; Graesse 4,252; Ebert 12214: 'The notes, partly critical, are short, but valuable, and the translation is very succesful'; Dibdin 2,178/79) (Details: Backstrip gone. The engraved frontispiece depicts an orator lecturing in a library to students. Greek text with parallel Latin translation, notes at the bottom of the page) (Condition: Back gone. Upper board worn and detached. Both boards scuffed. Paper foxed and yellowing) (Note: The literary treatise 'On the sublime' (Peri Hupsous), of which 2/3 survives, and is ascribed by the medieval tradition to Dionysius Longinus, was written some time in the first century A.D. 'As a stimulus to critical thought and to the understanding of ancient literature he (the author) has permanent value'. (OCD, 2nd ed. p. 619). 'Longinus was ably edited by Zachary Pearce, (1690-1774), Fellow of Trinity, and ultimately bishop of Rochester'. (Sandys II,412). It was a new recension and had a new translation, and was published in London in 1724. Pearce revised the text for this second edition and added new notes. Of this second edition, published in 1732, reissues have been published in London in 1743, 1753 and 1773. St.Marin no. 44, the Pearce's 1724 edition: 'This scholar's work turned out to be a fine critical edition, and was especially valued for the variants which it offers'') § This edition of 1769 was produced by the German classical scholar and theologian Samuel Friedrich Nathanael Morus, 1736-1792. In 1768 he was appointed associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig. From 1771 he was Professor of Greek and Latin. Four years later, in 1773, Morus published in Leipzig a 'Libellus animadversionum ad Longinum') (Collation: a-b8, c2; A-V8, X2) (Photographs on request)
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