Renouard, 126:4; Schreiber, 159; Adams, A-1187.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition with extensive annotations and corrections by Henri Estienne, ‘typographer to the Fuggers’ as indicated on the title page. <\/p>\n
“Henri Estienne’s important edition of the Greek Anthology, which provided a much better text than any of its predecessors. For this edition Henri devised a system of diacritical marks ‘peculiar to himself’ (notae sibi peculiares) to denote various classes of proper nouns: e.g. persons and famous animals, nations and cities, mountains, and bodies of water; he also employs in the margins the symbol of the hand with pointing finger to call attention to gnomic expressions in the text – this was already used in the 1557 Aeschylus. The volume contains 154 pages of Annotationes by Estienne, who, in the course of these, gives a Latin translation of one epigram, and then provides 50 different alternate versions of the last distich ! In is preface the to the reader Henri claims that he performed this poetic tour de force in order to kindle the interest of young readers” (Schreiber).<\/p>\n
Important Provenance<\/span><\/p>\n This beautiful volume has belonged to Jean-Fran\u00e7ois-Paul Le F\u00e8vre de Caumartin (1668-1732) and bears his coart of arms. He began his education at the abbey of Bouzai (diocese of Nantes) at the age of 7 on the resignation of his godfather, Cardinal de Retz. Dean of Tours cathedral, he was elected a member of the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise on 8 May 1694 and was made an honorary associate of the Acad\u00e9mie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1701. His extensive library of over 9000 books and manuscripts was dispersed after his death.<\/p>\n A very fine copy, probably washed at the time of binding, with minor old restorations to the white margin of the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4to (247 x 148 mm) 2 unn.ll., 545 pp. (misnumbered 539; pagination 283-288 repeated), 17 unn.ll. Seventeenth-century red morocco, doulbe gilt filet on covers, central coat of arms of Jean-Fran\u00e7ois-Paul Le F\u00e8vre de Caumartin (OHR, 652, n\u00b0 4), spine gilt with raised bands, marbled and gilt edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1243],"class_list":{"0":"post-78681","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-16th-century-literature","8":"pa_auteur-estienne-henri-2","9":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"Henri ESTIENNE","chapeau":"The Caumartin copy bound in red morocco","adresse_bibliographique":"Gen\u00e8ve, Henri Estienne, 1566","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n