SOPHOCLES.
‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι ‘επτα. Sophoclis Tragoediae septem: nova versione donatae scholiisque veteribus illustratae; accedunt notae perpetuae, et variae lectiones, opera Thomae Johnson, A. M. …. Editio prioribus longè accuriator, et auctior. Eton, Joseph Pote; and sold by C. Bathurst et al, London, 1775.
Two vols in three, 8vo, pp. iv, 379, [1]: [ii], 292; 162, 133, [1], 77, [1], [2 (ads)], with the Latin translations and the notes bound separately as a third volume; a very good copy in contemporary sheep, covers scraped, joints cracked but holding, red morocco labels; ownership inscription in Vols II and III ‘JBailward – 99'.
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‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι ‘επτα. Sophoclis Tragoediae septem: nova versione donatae scholiisque veteribus illustratae; accedunt notae perpetuae, et variae lectiones, opera Thomae Johnson, A. M. …. Editio prioribus longè accuriator, et auctior.
An attractive Eton-printed edition of Thomas Johnson’s Sophocles. Johnson (d. 1746), was educated at Eton, gaining a scholarship to King’s Cambridge in 1683, and returning to the school as assistant master in 1705, the same year he published his editions of Sophocles’ Ajax and Electra (followed in 1708 by Antigone and Trachiniae); suffering from perpetual debts, which had already led to a spell in prison, and a dissolute lifestyle, he nevertheless ‘gained considerable reputation for his edition of Sophocles, with a Latin version and notes’ (ODNB), although the complete plays in his edition did not appear until 1746.
ESTC T155696.