‎LONGINUS (Dionysius).‎
‎De Sublimitate commentarius.‎

‎DIONUSIOU LONGINOU PERI HUPSOUS HUPOMNÊMA. Dionysii Longini De Sublimitate commentarius, quem nova versione donavit, notis illustravit, & partim manuscriptorum ope, partim conjectura emendavit (additis etiam omnibus ejusdem auctoris fragmentis) Zacharias Pearce, A.M., Regiae Majestati a Sacris Domesticis etc. Editio secunda, notis & emendationibus auctior. ‎

‎London (Londini), Ex officina Jacobi Tonson & Joannis Watts, 1732. ‎

‎8vo. XXXV,(I errata),301,(3 variae lectiones),(19 index),(1 blank) p. Calf. 20 cm (Ref: ESTC Citation No. T87458; Hoffmann 2,527: 'Pearce hat in dieser Ausg. viel verbessert'; D. St.Marin no. 44: 'a fine critical edition'; Dibdin 2,177/8: 'Bishop Pearce is rightly called by Harles, 'Longini Sospicator'; Brunet 3,1152: 'Cette édition a été revue par l'éditeur qui y a ajouté de nouvelles notes, et c'est d'après ce texte qu'ont été faites les réimpressions de Londres, 1743, 1753, 1773'; Graesse 4,252; Ebert 12211) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands & with gilt lettered brown morocco label in second compartment. Old paper shelfmark label at the foot. Boards with bouble fillet blindstamped borders, in which a double fillet rectangel with corner pieces, in which another smaller double fillet rectangel of a darker hue leather, which is surrounded by a blindstamped roll of floral motives. Title in red & black. Engraved frontispiece: an orator and his audience in a library. Woodcut initials and headpieces. An engraved headpiece with the coat of arms Thomas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, Viscount of Ewelme, and Baron of Macclesfield, at the beginning of the dedicatio. Paper of excellent quality. Parallel Greek and Latin texts; all the notes are conveniently printed under the text) (Condition: Some slight scratching on the boards. Front hinge showing a tendency to start splitting. Some old ink annotations on the front pastedown. Quotation from Pope's 'Essay on Criticism' in old ink on the rear pastedown) (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 reissues have been published in London, in 1743, 1753 and 1773. St.Marin no. 44: 'This scholar's work turned out to be a fine critical edition, and was especially valued for the variants which it offers'. This octavo edition 'was published for the sake of general circulation', and has 'propagated universally the critical talents and fine taste of their editor'. (Dibdin)) (Provenance: In ink on the front pastedown: 'E libris Capel Berrow e Coll. St Joh. Bapt. Oxon., 1736' This is the English divine Capel Berrow, 1716-1782. He matriculated a commoner of St. John's College at Oxford in 1734, proceeded B.A. 1738, and M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, 1758. He became curate of St. Botolph's, Aldersgate (1741), and afterwards of St. Austin's, and in 1744 was chosen lecturer of St Benedict's, Paul's Wharf. In 1766 Capel Barrow was rector of Rossington, Northamptonshire. His 'A Lapse of Human Souls in a State of Pre-existence, the only Original Sin and the Ground Work of the Gospel Dispensation', published in 1766, is his only book now remembered. (See his Wikipedia article)) (Collation: A8, a8, b2; B-X8, Y2 (leaf Y2 verso blank) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ ΛΟΓΓΙΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΥΨΟΥΣ ΥΠΟΜΝΗΜΑ / Dionysii Longini de Sublimitate Commentarius [...] Nova Versione [.‎

‎Zacharias PEARCE (1690-1774), Londinii, ex Officiani Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts. 1724. Large quarto, [9], xv, 187, 28, [15] p. with engraved frontispiece, headings and tail pieces. Greek and latin text, light stamp on title page margin. Longinus (1st century AD) was a writer, to whom is attributed the above leading work of literary criticism of antiquity ("On Height"). It deals with the high and majestic style of speech in both prose and poetry. The author combines his personal views with a wealth of examples from Homer, Plato, Demosthenes, Sappho and others (even from the Old Testament). The work was already appreciated in its time, and the views expressed in it, many of which were judged to be forerunners of later philological values, played an important role in the literary and aesthetic concerns of modern times. Contemporary, full calf binding with wear, gilt stamp on the cover; visibly rubbed and bumped along edges and corners, weak first hinge (restored internally). Clean an very tight inside. Brunet III - 1152, Hoffmann III - pp. 21. Rare and Good copy. 330,00 € ‎

‎Dionysii Longini de Sublimitate Commentarius, ceteraque, quae reperiri ptuere. In usum Principis Electoralis Brandenburgici . Jacobus Tollius E quinque Codicibus MSS. Emendavit...‎

‎ Trajecti ad Rhenum, Ex Officina Francisci Halma, 1694 ; in-4°, demi- basane fauve, dos à nerfs très orné de petits fers dorés , titre doré sur étiquette de maroquin violine, tranches marbrées de bleu ( reliure XXe, dos pastiche du XVIIIe).Titre-frontispice, (26)pp.( titre, dédicace, préface , vie de Longin), 408pp., ( 12)pp. ( Index).Petite restauration à l'angle supérieur du titre, reliure très légèrement frottée, début de fente sur 1 cm au mors supérieur en tête; quelques feuillets un peu jaunis, rares piqûres.‎

‎Beau-titre frontispice gravé par J. Baptiste d'après J. Goeree, 1 vignette dans le texte, lettres ornées et culs-de-lampe.Reliure du début XXe siècle. Ex-libris manuscrit de l'époque au titre " Joannis Gravensis Nemouloris" et ex-libris cachet rouge " Ph. Le Bas ".Edition en grec et latin, recherchée car elle réunit les notes de plusieurs auteurs ( Cf. Brunet . Tome III). ( Reu-CO1) ‎