3
Sophoclis tragoediae.
Gr.
Lat. cum Scholiis.
3. v.
12
mo.
Cantabr.
1665.
Scholia in Sophoclis trageodiis.
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 150, no. 2. Scholia in Sophoclis Tragœdias, 12mo.
1831 Catalogue, page 238, no.
J. 4. Scholia in Sophoclis Tragœdiæ, 12mo.
1849 Catalogue, page 928, no. 4. Sophocles: Tragœdiæ Septem; unà cum omnibu græcis Scholiis ad calcem adnexis, 12mo; Cantabrigia.
[No date.]
SOPHOCLES.
Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι ζ. Cantabrigiae, Excudebat
Joannes Field Celeberrimae Academiae Typographus.
1665.--
Σχολια παλαια των πανυ δοκιμων, μετ(`α) κα(`ι) τ(^ω)ν το(^υ) τρικαινιoυ εις Σοφοκλεους ‛επτα τραγωδι(`α)ς. Θ ’Εν τ(^η)
Κανταβριγί(˛α) ’εξετυπωθη παρ’
Ιωαννου Φιελδου, το(^υ) τ(^η)ς ’Ακαδημίας τυπογράφου. ’΄Ετει ’απ(`ο) τ(^η)ς Θεογονίας. αχξη.
1 vol. [? in 3] sm. 8vo. It is difficult to determine exactly from the catalogues whether Jefferson sold to Congress both
the text and the scholia, or merely the volume containing the scholia. It is possible that Jefferson had “conflated” the two
books which were issued in one volume as he did the copy (with the 1668 edition of the scholia) sold with his library at auction
in 1829, and now in the Library of Princeton University. The note to this copy in the Princeton catalogue reads in part: “Wrongly
bound. Apparently the text (545 p.) was intended to form one part and the scholia (236 p.) another. This copy has been bound
to make volumes of uniform thickness, with part of scholia in each.” It seems clear that the Library of Congress catalogues
quote from the title-page of the second part, the scholia, in which the date is in
Greek, as not one of the catalogues cites the date, and that of 1849 states no date, as shown above. The entry in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue is similar to the entry quoted above, with the addition of the price,
2/9, so that the book was probably bought from an English dealer.
Bowes, 127 and 127b.
STC S4691.
Graesse VI, 440.
Ebert 21466.
This edition was founded on that of Henri Estienne.
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Francklin’s Sophocles.
2. v. in 1.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 149, no. 29, as above.
SOPHOCLES.
The Tragedies of Sophocles, from the
Greek; by Thomas Francklin, M.A. Fellow of Trinity-College, and
Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge. Vol. I. [II] . . .
London: Printed for
R. Francklin, in Covent-Garden,
1758,
9.
PA4414 .A1 F6 1759
First Edition of This Translation. 4to. 2 vol. in 1, Vol. I, 158 leaves, including 6 for the list of subscribers, and the last
for
Francklin’s advertisement, engraved frontispiece by C. Grignon after F. Hayman; vol. II, 200 leaves, engraved vignette on both titles, with
portrait of Sophocles
E. Gemma in Museo Florentino. On the last page of the subscribers’ list, b
5 recto, is a notice “To the Subscribers. On, or before the first of
November next, will be publish’d, A Dissertation on the Antient Tragedy”; the
errata for both volumes on the verso of the same leaf.
Lowndes V, 2454.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 768.
This may be the edition that Jefferson bought from the 2d part of
Lackington’s catalogue for 1787, price
2/9.
The volumes were issued separately; it is possible that Jefferson had them bound together.
Thomas Francklin, 1721-1784, the son of Richard Francklin, the printer of these volumes, was for a time professor of Greek at Cambridge University.
For another work by him, see no. 4705.
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