ANACREON.
[Odaria.] Ανακρεοντος τηιου μελη praefixo commentario quo poëtae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lect.
Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’, 1791.
Small 8vo, in fours, pp. [iv], cxviii, [2], 111, [1]; printed in capitals throughout, with an engraved medallion portrait of Anacreon on the title-page and one of the dedicatee on the following leaf; thick paper (watermark: a cross on a mound with the initials FP); some occasional marginal foxing, but a very good copy in early red straight-grained morocco, gilt, by Kalthoeber, with his orange ticket, gilt edges, doublures gilt with Greek-key border, front cover with later central gilt stamp of James Elwin Millard (1823–1894), armorial bookplate of the barrister Henry Pilkington (1787–1859), booklabel of the French bookbinder and bookseller Léon Gruel (1841–1923).
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[Odaria.] Ανακρεοντος τηιου μελη praefixo commentario quo poëtae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lect.
Thick paper copy, apparently one of 12 copies from an edition of 212. This attractive edition of Anacreon’s Odaria was edited by G. C. Amaduzzi and printed by Bodoni. ‘The editions of 1785 and 1791 are printed in capital letters, and more elegant and exquisitely finished productions cannot be conceived’ (Dibdin, I, 265f). Bodoni printed two editions of Anacreon in 1791, this and another in 16mo from a different setting of type. It is sometime found on large paper, imposed as a quarto.
In 1791 Giambattista Bodoni was offered his own private press by the Duke of Parma to counter an offer from Nicolas de Azára (dedicatee of this work), who had hoped to lure him to Rome; he remained in Parma, producing much of his greatest work in the decade that followed.
James Elwin Millard (1823–1894) was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1853; he was Master of Madgalen School 1846-64.
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