ties. This is his first variorum edition of the work of Lucanus.
Thomas Farnaby, 1575?-1647, English schoolmaster and classical scholar. His first edition of the Pharsalia was published in London in 1618.
Hugo Grotius, 1583-1645. His first edition of the Pharsalia was published without date; a second edition appeared in Amsterdam in 1626.
For other works by him, see the Index.
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id. [i.e. Lucanus. Variorum] Farnabii
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 10a, Lucani Pharsalia, Farnabii, 12mo.
LUCANUS,
Marcus Annaeus.
M. Annaei Lvcani Pharsalia, sive, De Bello Civili Cæsaris et Pompeji Lib. Z. Additiæ sunt in fine Hvgonis Grotii notæ ex binis antehac editis
junctæ, auctæ, correctæ. Et Thomas Farnabii in margine etc.
Amsterodami: apud
Ionnem Blaewu,
1643.
12mo. 174 leaves, engraved title-page, sphere device; no copy was available for collation.
Graesse IV, 273.
Not in Dibdin.
See the previous entry.
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Rowe’s Lucan.
Lat.
Eng.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 41, as above.
LUCANUS,
Marcus Annæus.
Lucan’s Pharsalia. Translated into
English Verse by Nicholas Rowe, Esq; Servant to his Majesty . . .
London: printed for
Jacob Tonson,
mdccxviii
. [1718.]
PA6479 .E5 R6
First Edition of this translation. Folio. 248 leaves, separate alphabet and pagination for the Notes at the end, engraved frontispiece
by B. Baron after L. Cheron, engraved vignette on the title-page, folded engraved map as frontispiece to the text, engraved head pieces, culs-de-lampe
and initials after Cheron by Van der Gucht, and by Kirkall; list of subscribers on 5 pages; dedication to the King signed by Anne Rowe.
Lowndes III, 1408.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 766.
Nicholas Rowe, 1674-1718, English dramatist and poet laureate, died on December 6 of the year this volume was published. It is dedicated
to King George I by his widow, and prefixed by an
Account of Lucan and his Works, and of
Mr. Rowe by James Welwood, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
James Wellwood (usually so written), 1652-1727, studied in Glasgow University and went to Holland in 1679, returning with King William and
Queen Mary in 1690.
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May’s Lucan. Eng.
16
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 10b, Lucan’s Pharsalia, by May, 16s.
LUCANUS.
Lvcan’s Pharsalia: or, The Civill Warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the Great, and Ivlivs Caesar. The whole tenne bookes
Englished by Thomas May . . . The
Second Edition, corrected, and the annotations enlarged by the Author.
London: Printed by
A. Mathewes, for
T. Iones,
1631.
Sm. 8vo.
Second Edition. 155 leaves, engraved title by F. Hulsius; a copy of this edition was not available for examination.
Lowndes III, 1408.
STC 16888.
Hazlitt
Handbook, page 356 (b), I, 267.
Thomas May, 1595-1650, English poet, made many translations of the classics. His translation of Lucan’s Pharsalia was first published
in 1627, and passed through three editions in eight years. May himself composed a continuation of Lucan both in Latin and
in English, and carried the story to the death of Caesar.
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