12mo. A copy of this edition was not located. The above title was copied from another edition.
This edition was not found in any bibliography consulted. There is no card in the National Union Catalog, and it is not listed
in the British Museum Catalogue.
Editions of the
Anthologia Græca were prepared for both Westminster School and Eton College. The Eton selection was much larger than the Westminster. It contained
a great part of what was in the Westminster selection, and a great many additional verses and epigrams.
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Anthologia Westmonasteriensis.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, p. 145, no. 52, as above.
ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA.
’Ανθολογία; sive, Epigrammatum
Graecorum ex ’Ανθολογία edita, MS. Bodleiana, aliisque autoribus delectus. In usum Scholae Westmonasteriensis.
Londini: sumptibus
B. Barker,
1748.
8vo. A copy of this edition was not found for collation.
This edition not in any of the bibliographies consulted.
The
Anthologia Graeca edited for the use of Westminster School was divided into three books, each containing one hundred poems or epigrams. The
authors included Plato the Younger, Nicharchus, Pollianus, Lucillius, Palladas, Lucian, Julian, Menecrates, Simonides, Zelotes,
Apollinarius, Dioscorides, and many others. The first edition edited for the use of Westminster School seems to have been
printed in Oxford in 1724.
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Epigrammatum delectus et elegantis sententiae. Etonenses.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, p. 145, no. 26, as above.
[NICOLE,
Pierre.]
Epigrammatum Delectus, ex omnibus, tum Veteribus tum Recentioribus, Poetis accurate decerptus: cum Dissertatione De Vera Pulchritudine
et adumbrata, in qua, ex certis Principiis Rejectionis et Selectionis Epigrammatam causae redduntur. Adjectae sunt elegantes
Sententiae, ex antiquis Poetis parcè, sed serviore judicio, selectæ. Cum brevioribus Sententiis ac Proverbiis, ex Auctoribus
Graecis et
Latinis. Quibus hac
Quinta Editione subjungitur. Alterius Delectus Specimen, ex nuperis maxime Poetis ab Electoribus praetermissis; in usum Scholae
Etonensis.
Londini: Sumptibus
S. Smith et
B. Walford,
1699.
12mo. A copy was not available for examination. The above title is taken from the Term Catalogues, and the Short Title Catalogue.
See Barbier IV, 1248.
Arber, III, 142, no. 6.
STC N1135.
An account of this book is given by H. C. Maxwel Lyte, in his
A History of Eton College 1440-1875, page 230: . . . A small book entitled “
Epigrammatus Delectus” printed for the fourth time in 1689, is expressly stated to have been
In usum Scholae Etonensis. Martial predominates in it, but the compiler was not exclusive in his views, and found room for several productions of modern
Latinists, as Sannazaro, Strozzi, Strada, Beza, Grotius, John Owen, Buchanan, and others. Another portion of the book consists
of choice quotations from classical poets, and it ends with a collection of short Greek sentences accompanied by Latin translations
. . .
Pierre Nicole, 1625-1695, French moralist, one of the writers of Port-Royal. The first edition of this book printed in England was printed
in London, 1683. The book was many times reprinted. The Library of Congress has an edition printed in London, 1752.
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