ON GREEK IDIOM
VIGER, François.
De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis … accessit praeterea huic editioni observationum non inutilium qualecunque auctarium, nec non vocum graecarum index locupletissimus, de novo compositus.
London, G. Godbid for William Shrowsberey, 1678.
12mo, pp. [12], 415, [1 (blank)], [52]; text in Latin and Greek, final leaf advertisement in English; marginal foxing, light dampstaining to later leaves, paperflaw to C3 (insignificantly affecting one character); contemporary English speckled calf, cornerpieces tooled in blind, spine blind-ruled in compartments and lettered directly in gilt; rubbed and scuffed, splits to joints, lower board warped; old shelflabel to spine.
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De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis … accessit praeterea huic editioni observationum non inutilium qualecunque auctarium, nec non vocum graecarum index locupletissimus, de novo compositus.
Second London edition of this treatise on Greek idiom by the French Jesuit François Viger (1590–1647).
First published at Paris in 1632, De præcipuis græcæ dictionis idiotismis was frequently revised and reprinted, with its first London edition printed in 1647. This second edition includes a two-page ‘true Catalogue of all the works that are printed and published of the Honourable Sir Matthew Hale … sold by William Shrowsberey, at the Sign of the Bible in Duke-Lane’.
ESTC R20532; see Sommervogel VIII, col. 742.1.
