Tentamen de Metris, ab Aeschylo, in Choricis Cantibus adhibitis.
Cantabrigiae: typis ac sumptibus academicis. M.DCCC.IX. Veneunt Londini apud Payne: Wilkie et Robinson [Cambridge: University Press for Payne, Wilkie and Robinson, 1809]. Large 8vo (245 x 158 mm.). Contemporary English purple straight-grained morocco, covers with blind rolled border of stylized floral ornament enclosing a single gilt fillet center panel with incurved corners; spine blind-tooled in similar style, gilt lettered in three compartments with gilt tooling on the five raised bands; board edges blind ruled and with gilt-dotted hatching at corners, dark grey endpapers, g.e. Condition : Board edges and joints rubbed, spine faded, upper joint very slightly cracked but leather sound. Provenance : The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth, bookplate (sale, Christie's London, 30 September 1981, lot 81, £160, Traylen). first edition . The Dedication Copy for Thomas Dampier (1749-1812), Bishop of Ely and book collector. One of five large-paper copies, inscribed in Dampier's (the dedicatee's) hand on first blank leaf "Quinque tantum exemplaria in major hac chartã impressa fuere." Both Burney and Dampier were dedicated and serious book collectors in the English classical tradition and each evidently shared a keen interest in the design and format of this special book. Burney's library was eventually acquired by the British Museum for £13,500 and named the Burney Library; Dampier's was purchased en bloc after his death by William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858), the greatest and most insatiable collector of his family, for £10,000 -- this itself is a measure of the significance of Dampier's library. Charles Burney schoolmaster and Greek scholar was the second son of Charles Burney the historian of music and the younger brother of Frances Burney. The Prince Regent once remarked that "it was curious for the father to be the best judge of music and the son to be the best Greek critic in the kingdom." Lowndes (1865 ed.) I, p. 325 ("A highly esteemed and much valued work")
Tentamen de Metris, ab Aeschylo, in Choricis Cantibus adhibitis.
Cantabrigiae: typis ac sumptibus academicis. M.DCCC.IX. Veneunt Londini apud Payne: Wilkie et Robinson [Cambridge: University Press for Payne, Wilkie and Robinson, 1809]. Large 8vo (245 x 158 mm.). Contemporary English purple straight-grained morocco, covers with blind rolled border of stylized floral ornament enclosing a single gilt fillet center panel with incurved corners; spine blind-tooled in similar style, gilt lettered in three compartments with gilt tooling on the five raised bands; board edges blind ruled and with gilt-dotted hatching at corners, dark grey endpapers, g.e. Condition : Board edges and joints rubbed, spine faded, upper joint very slightly cracked but leather sound. Provenance : The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth, bookplate (sale, Christie's London, 30 September 1981, lot 81, £160, Traylen). first edition . The Dedication Copy for Thomas Dampier (1749-1812), Bishop of Ely and book collector. One of five large-paper copies, inscribed in Dampier's (the dedicatee's) hand on first blank leaf "Quinque tantum exemplaria in major hac chartã impressa fuere." Both Burney and Dampier were dedicated and serious book collectors in the English classical tradition and each evidently shared a keen interest in the design and format of this special book. Burney's library was eventually acquired by the British Museum for £13,500 and named the Burney Library; Dampier's was purchased en bloc after his death by William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858), the greatest and most insatiable collector of his family, for £10,000 -- this itself is a measure of the significance of Dampier's library. Charles Burney schoolmaster and Greek scholar was the second son of Charles Burney the historian of music and the younger brother of Frances Burney. The Prince Regent once remarked that "it was curious for the father to be the best judge of music and the son to be the best Greek critic in the kingdom." Lowndes (1865 ed.) I, p. 325 ("A highly esteemed and much valued work")
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