August New Acquisitions
A SECOND FOOTNOTE TO BIBLIOTHECA FICTIVA We are pleased to offer for sale a new publication from Arthur Freeman, a second footnote to his inventory of fakes and forgeries, Bibliotheca Fictiva, which was published by Bernard Quaritch Ltd in 2014 and followed by Julia Alpinula in 2015. Catullus Carmen 17.6, a partly historical, partly philological essay, offers a general account of the early preservation, post-medieval recovery, and Renaissance evolution of the text of Catullus, with specific reference to one speculative reading in Carmen 17 (‘De Colonia’), and certain humanist twists and forgeries that accompanied its long editorial history. Accompanying the narrative is a substantial bibliographical appendix that provides a checklist of significant editions of Catullus in Latin from 1475 to the present day, with brief notes of relevance and location. Copies are now available to purchase from our website, priced at £15. 8vo (230 x 155 mm), pp. 86; three illustrations; in paper wrappers. ALMANACS! The majority of these almanacs are recorded as surviving in only a few copies in British and North American institutions. ESTC shows most holdings to be at the British Library and Lambeth Palace Library in the UK, 1. [ALMANACS.] A volume containing 10 English and at the Huntington Library and Society of Cincinnati almanacs for the year 1781. London, printed for the in North America. Season’s Speculum Anni appears to Company of Stationers and sold by John Wilkie, at their be particularly rare, with only one copy recorded in the Hall in Ludgate-Street, 1781. UK, at Lambeth Palace Library. 10 almanacs bound together, 8vo; printed in red and ESTC T57502, T58284, T16923, T17077, T29548, black, with numerous woodcut vignettes and diagrams; T17663, T17762, N49013, T28628, T59985.
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