5
Aeschylus
Gr.
Lat.
2. v.
p. 4
to.
Foul.
1815 Catalogue, page 149, no. 16, as above.
AESCHYLUS.
‛Αι του Αισχυλου τραγωδιαι σωζομεναι επτα. Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Extant Septem. Cum Versione
Latina, et Lectionibus Variantibus.
Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis Excudebat
Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus, apud quem prostant.
mdccxlvi
. [1746.]
PA3825 .A2 1746
1 vol. in 2, sm. 4to in twos, 316 leaves, the last a blank,
Greek and
Latin text on alternate leaves, half-titles for the several plays, list of books printed by
R. and A. Foulis at the end.
Graesse I, 29.
Ebert 187.
Dibdin I, 240.
This work was issued in one volume. Jefferson’s manuscript and the early Library of Congress printed catalogues call for two volumes, so it is to be assumed that his copy was so bound.
The text is founded on the edition of Thomas Stanley, first printed in London in 1663. [For other editions of the classics
by Stanley, see the Index.]
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6
Aeschyli quae supersunt, commentario, scholiis et lexico Schutz.
Gr. Aeschylus.
Eng. by Potter
.....
}
8. vols.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 149, no. 17. Aeschylus, Commentario, Scholiis et Lexico Schutz Gr. & Eng. by Potter, 8 v. 8vo.
AESCHYLUS.
Aeschyli Tragoediae qvae svpersvnt ac deperditarvm Fragmenta. Recensvit Christian. Godofr. Schütz. Vol. I [-III]
Halae:
Ioannes Iacobvs Gebaver itervm typis excvdit
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.--
The Tragedies of Aeschylus translated. By R. Potter. The
second edition, corrected, with notes. In
Two Volumes. Vol. I. [-II]
London: Printed for
W. Strahan; and
T. Cadell in the Strand.
mdcclxxix
. [1782, 1783, 1779.]
PA3827 .A1 1779
8vo. In the absence of Jefferson’s copy it is difficult to know exactly how his volumes were arranged. His correspondence
makes it clear that he bought the first edition of Schütz, three volumes in octavo,
1782,
3, and the last volume, published in
1799 from
Reibelt in 1806. Potter’s translation was issued in 2 volumes. Jefferson’s dated manuscript and all the Library of Congress catalogues down to that of 1849,
combine the Schütz edition and Potter’s translation into one entry, 8 volumes, 8vo. The catalogue of 1839
is the first to supply any dates; this entry omits any dates for Potter’s translation, but calls for the first edition of Schütz:
Halae,
1782,
3. In the Catalogue of 1849 the two books are separated, though given
the same number, and the asterisk denoting that they were from Jefferson’s
library. The two entries read:
Aeschylus: Tragœdiae, quae Supersunt, ac deperditarum Fragmenta; recensuit C. G. Schütz, 4 v. 8vo;
Halae,
1782-’83.*
19 ------ Tragedies; translated by R. Potter,
2d edition, with Notes, 2 v. 8vo;
London,
1779.*
These two entries together call for 6 volumes, and not for 8 as in the earlier catalogues.
The information obtained from Jefferson’s correspondence and bills concerning the Aeschylus of Schütz is as follows:
The first two volumes were purchased from
Armand Koenig of Strassburg, ordered from his catalogue in a letter dated from Paris June 29, 1789: “
Aeschyli tragoediae. Schutz. 2. v. 8
vo. maj. Halae. 1782.3.4.
30
[pounds].”
The volumes were included at that price in Koenig’s bill of the 7 Juillet. “
1 Aeschylus. Schutzii. 8vo. 4 parts in 2 vol. bl.”
It was probably at the time that he had these two vol-
