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Londini: sumptibus editoris excudebant Gul. Bulmer et Soc. et prostant apud J. White et G. Miller. mdcccii . [1802]
Sm. 8vo. 68 leaves including the half-title and the last blank, Greek letter, engraved head pieces and culs de lampe, half-title for the Variae Lectiones on P 3 recto; Bulmer’s imprint at the end.
Graesse I.
Ebert 569.
Edward Forster, 1769-1828, English author, translator and editor. The vignettes for this edition were drawn by Forster’s wife, Elizabeth, formerly Elizabeth Bedingfeld.
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Moore’s Anacreon. p. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 142, no. 47, as above, but reading Moor’s.
ANACREON.
Odes of Anacreon, translated into English Verse, with Notes. By Thomas Moore, Esq. of the Middle Temple. Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Hugh Maxwell, 1804.
PA3865 .E5 1804b
8vo. 156 leaves, engraved portrait of Thomas Moore and of Anacreon, both by D. Edwin.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Thomas Moore, 1779-1852, Irish poet. This metrical translation of Anacreon was made while Moore was still a student at Trinity College, Dublin, and was first printed in London in 1800. It is dedicated to the Prince of Wales.
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id. [i.e. Anacreon] Gr. Lat. Barnes. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 141, no. 8, Anacreon, Gr. Lat. notis Barnes, 12mo.
ANACREON.
Anacreon Teius, Poeta Lyricus, Summa Cura & Diligentia, ad fidem etiam Vet. MS. Vatican. Emendatus, Pristino Nitori, Numerisque suis Restitutus, Dimidia fere parte Auctus, Aliquot nempe justis Poematiis, & Fragmentis plurimis, ab undiquaque conquisitis. Item Anacreontis Vita &c. Aliaque, quorum seriem sequens Pagina notat. Accessere Ornamenti loco Tres Eleganter-Sculptæ Effigies Auctoris, Anacreontis, Patroni, D. Ducis de Marlborough, Editoris, Josuæ Barnesii. Opera & studio Josuæ Barnes, S.T.B. Græc. Ling. Cantabr. Professor. Regii . . . Editio Altera. Auctior & Emendatior. Cantabrigiæ: Recentioribus Typis Academicis, Impensis Jac. Knapton, Bibliopolæ. Lond. mdccxxi . [1721.]
12mo, 268 leaves, Greek and Latin text on opposite pages, Anacreontis Vita at the beginning, engraved portrait frontispiece of Joshua Barnes, with the arms of the Regius Professor of Greek, engraved portrait of the Duke of Marlborough, to whom the book is dedicated, and engraved portrait of Anacreon.
Graesse I, 110.
Ebert 553.
Bowes 411.
Joshua Barnes published his first edition of Anacreon in 1705. For other editions of the classics edited by Barnes, see the Index.
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Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 141, no. 9, Anacreon and Sappho, by several hands, 12mo.
It is possible that this work was not delivered to Congress; it is not checked as having been received in the working copy of the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue, but is marked missing and is omitted from all subsequent catalogues. The work is entered in the manuscript list of missing books made at a later date.

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