2 vol. sm. 8vo. 171 and 187 leaves, 22 engraved plates by Sébastien Le Clerc, including a bust portrait of Tasso and a half-title at the beginning of Volume I.
Brunet V, 667. Graesse VI, 33.
Not in De Ricci-Cohen.
Jombert, no. 140 (not this edition).
Meaume, page 111.
Murray,
Robert and Andrew Foulis, page 81.
This entry is not checked as having been received in the contemporary working copy of the 1815 Catalogue, and is omitted from
the later Library of Congress catalogues.
Sébastien Le Clerc, 1637-1714, French engraver and geometrician, first published these illustrations for
La Gierusalemme Liberata in the Elzevir edition, for Thomas Jolly of Paris in 1678. According to Murray,
op. cit. Foulis printed the illustrations for his editions from the plates of Le Clerc, which he had bought.
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The same [i.e. La Gierusalemme liberata del Tasso]
Eng. by Hoole.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 9, Tasso’s Jerusalem, Eng. by Hoole, 12mo.
TASSO,
Torquato.
Jerusalem Delivered; an Heroic Poem: translated from the
Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoole. Vol. I. [-II.] The
Second Edition.
London: Printed for
R. and J. Dodsley,
P. Vaillant,
T. Davies,
J. Newbery and
Z. Stuart,
mdcclxiv
. [1764.]
2 vol. in 1, 12mo. 156 and 146 leaves, with half-titles, engraved vignette on both title-pages by A. Walker; dedication to the Queen, Preface, and the Life of Tasso at the beginning of Volume I.
Hoole’s Tasso was one of the books bought by Jefferson from the Rev. Samuel Henley. It was included in the list sent to Henley
appended by Jefferson to his letter dated from Paris March 3, 1785, and is included in his own list of his purchase. The volumes were issued separately. Jefferson’s copy seems to have been bound in one volume.
John Hoole, 1727-1803, English author and translator, published the first edition of his translation of Tasso’s work in 1762. The dedication
to the Queen, reprinted in this second edition, and signed John Hoole, was written by Samuel Johnson. Boswell, in his
Life of Johnson
, wrote:
He [i.e. Johnson]
also favoured Mr. Hoole with the Dedication of his translation of Tasso to the Queen, which is so happily conceived and elegantly
expressed, that I cannot but point it out to the peculiar notice of my readers.
[1791, vol. I, page 207.]
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Lucanus. Variorum.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 21, Lucani Pharsalia Notis Variorum, 8vo.
LUCANUS,
Marcus Annaeus.
M. Annaeus Lucanus De Bello civili, cum Hug: Grotij Farnabij notis integris & variorum selectiss. Accurante Corn. Schrevelio. Lugd. Batavorum: apud F. Hackium, 1658.
8vo. 392 leaves including the engraved title, printed in italic letter; engraved folded map. A copy of this edition was not
available for examination; from the information available it seems to be identical with that printed in Amsterdam in the same
year by Hackius, ex officina Elzeviriana.
Graesse IV, 273.
Dibdin II, 185.
See Willems, 1234.
Rahir 1266.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, A.D. 39-65, born in Cordoba, was the nephew of the philosopher Seneca. His early death was due to his forced suicide on
the discovery of the conspiracy of Piso, which he had joined. The Bellum Civile, in ten books, of which the last is unfinished,
is the only one of his works which has come down to us apart from the titles and a few lines of others.
The work received the title Pharsalia from a mistaken interpretation of the passage
Pharsalia nostra vivet, et a nullo tenebris damnabitur aevo. (ix. 985.)
Cornelius Schrevelius [Kornelis Schrevel], c. 1615-c. 1667, Dutch scholar at Leyden University, where he had succeeded his father as dean of the schools of the humani-
