before the title of Pars II, (in the copy examined the general title and the margins of the frontispiece were ruled in red),
2 engraved maps, as described in the title, text printed in 3 columns, with passages in black letter and
Hebrew; a Kalendarium Romanum at the end.
Lowndes III, 1370.
Hazlitt II, 353.
STC L2563.
Arber I, 301 (February 1678).
à Wood IV, 404.
Adam Littleton, 1627-1694, English lexicographer, was educated at Westminster School, where he eventually became a master, and at Christ
Church, Oxford. The
Dictionary of National Biography in its life of Littleton states that the first edition of this work was published at London in 1673, and describes the edition
of 1678 as being much enlarged. All other bibliographies consulted cite this edition of 1678 as the first edition. The footnote
to Anthony à Wood’s entry to the edition of 1678 reads: “This is the first edition, of which the well-known anecdote of the
word
concurro, to
condog, is related . . .”
For Cooper’s
Thesaurus, mentioned in the title, see no. 4794.
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64
Robertson’s
Latin Phrases.
8
vo
1815 Catalogue, page 167, no. 72, as above.
ROBERTSON,
William.
Phraseologia generalis, Continens, quæcunque sunt scitu necessaria, & Praxi, usuique studiosorum Philologicorum, maxime utilia,
in cunctis operibus Phraseologicis,
Anglico-
Latinis, seu
Latino-
Anglicanis, hucúsque, hîc, in lucem editis; eaque succinctè, & methodicè, disposita; in gratiam studiosæ juventutis, & ad faciliorem,
ac fœliciorem, in studiis suis Philologicis, progressum. A Full, Large, and General Phrase Book; Comprehending, Whatsoever
is Necessary and most Usefull, in all other Phraseological Books, (hitherto, here, Published;) and Methodically Digested;
for the more speedy, and Prosperous Progress of Students, in their Humanity Studies. By William Robertson, A. M.
Cambridge: Printed by
John Hayes, Printer to the University.
1681. And are to be sold by
George Sawbridge, at the Bible, on Ludgate Hill,
London.
PA2319 .R68
First Edition. 8vo. 688 leaves, the first blank on the recto,
An Advertisement on the verso, the last with
Cambridge Phrases printed lengthwise on the recto, verso blank, text printed in double columns.
Lowndes IV, 2106.
Not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
STC R1616.
Hazlitt II, 520.
Bowes 166.
William Robertson, d. 1686?, Scots lexicographer, was a graduate of Edinburgh. He was the author of a number of dictionaries and similar works,
in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and English. This is the first edition of this work, which was several times reprinted. An edition
was re-edited in the nineteenth century.
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65
Gradus ad Parnassum.
g. 12
mo.
2. copies.
1815 Catalogue, page 165, no. 17, Gradus ad Parnassum, Gr. 12mo.
1831 Catalogue, page 248, no.
J. 19, Gradus ad Parnassum, Gr. 12mo.
1839 Catalogue, page 651, no.
J. 19, Gradus ad Parnassum, 12mo. [
No Title Page.]
In the absence of a title-page it is not possible to identify the edition in Jefferson’s library. It will be noted that the
Library of Congress catalogues from 1815 to 1831 inclusive, call for a non-existent edition in Greek, but do not report the
loss of the title-page, which must have ocurred
[
sic
--
Ed.
] between 1815 and 1831. The error with regard to the Greek is probably due to the g. (for
grand) in Jefferson’s entry, which is placed with the Latin dictionaries and textbooks.
Gradus ad Parnassum was originally the second title of an elementary work on Latin poetry ascribed to a Jesuit priest named Châtillon, entitled
Epithetorum et Synonymorum Thesaurus
, and first published in 1652. It was later revised and published anonymously by Paul Aler with Châtillon’s second title,
Gradus ad Parnassum. The first edition by Aler, 1656-1727, a German Jesuit and professor at Cologne, was published in that city in 1687. The
book was frequently reprinted, in Germany, England, and elsewhere.
See Backer I, 166.
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