TIBULLUS.
Albius Tibullus, eques Romanus; et in eum Jo. Antonii Vulpii philologi ac rhetoris in gymnasio Patavino novus commentarius diligentissimus.
Padua, Giuseppe Comino, 1749.
4to, pp. xxxviii, [2], 340, 93, [1], [2], with a final colophon leaf; engraved vignette to title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials, woodcut device to colophon leaf; title-page printed in red and black; a fine copy in contemporary English speckled calf, joints and edges rubbed; contemporary armorial bookplate of the Earls of Findlater, modern bookplate of J. F. Hildage.
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Albius Tibullus, eques Romanus; et in eum Jo. Antonii Vulpii philologi ac rhetoris in gymnasio Patavino novus commentarius diligentissimus.
An important edition of Tibullus’ love poems, with the commentary of Giovanni Antonio Volpi, who had founded the Libreria Cominiana along with his brother and the engraver Giuseppe Comino in 1717. Volpi had published a well-received edition of the standard tripos of Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius in 1710, earning him membership of the Accademia dei Ricovrati.
Moss 271 (‘this edition surpasses all the preceding ones’).
