DIONUSIOU LONGINOU PERI HUPSOUS HUPOMNÊMA. Dionysii Longini De Sublimitate commentarius, quem nova versione donavit, notis illustravit, & partim manuscriptorum ope, partim conjectura emendavit (additis etiam omnibus ejusdem auctoris fragmentis) Zacharias Pearce, A.M., Regiae Majestati a Sacris Domesticis etc. Editio secunda, notis & emendationibus auctior.

8vo. XXXV,(I errata),301,(3 variae lectiones),(19 index),(1 blank) p. Calf. 20 cm (Ref: ESTC Citation No. T87458; Hoffmann 2,527: ‘Pearce hat in dieser Ausg. viel verbessert’; D. St.Marin no. 44: ‘a fine critical edition’; Dibdin 2,177/8: ‘Bishop Pearce is rightly called by Harles, ‘Longini Sospicator’; Brunet 3,1152: ‘Cette édition a été revue par l’éditeur qui y a ajouté de nouvelles notes, et c’est d’après ce texte qu’ont été faites les réimpressions de Londres, 1743, 1753, 1773′; Graesse 4,252; Ebert 12211) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands & with gilt lettered brown morocco label in second compartment. Old paper shelfmark label at the foot. Boards with bouble fillet blindstamped borders, in which a double fillet rectangel with corner pieces, in which another smaller double fillet rectangel of a darker hue leather, which is surrounded by a blindstamped roll of floral motives. Title in red & black. Engraved frontispiece: an orator and his audience in a library. Woodcut initials and headpieces. An engraved headpiece with the coat of arms Thomas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, Viscount of Ewelme, and Baron of Macclesfield, at the beginning of the dedicatio. Paper of excellent quality. § Parallel Greek and Latin texts; all the notes are conveniently printed under the text) (Condition: Some slight scratching on the boards. Front hinge showing a tendency to start splitting. Some old ink annotations on the front pastedown. Quotation from Pope’s ‘Essay on Criticism’ in old ink on the rear pastedown) (Note: The literary treatise ‘On the sublime’ (Peri Hupsous), of which 2/3 survives, and is ascribed by the medieval tradition to Dionysius Longinus, was written some time in the first century A.D. ‘As a stimulus to critical thought and to the understanding of ancient literature he (the author) has permanent value’. (OCD, 2nd ed. p. 619). ‘Longinus was ably edited by Zachary Pearce, (1690-1774), Fellow of Trinity, and ultimately bishop of Rochester’. (Sandys II,412). It was a new recension and had a new translation, and was published in London in 1724. Pearce revised the text for this second edition and added new notes. Of this second edition reissues have been published in London, in 1743, 1753 and 1773. St.Marin no. 44: ‘This scholar’s work turned out to be a fine critical edition, and was especially valued for the variants which it offers’. This octavo edition ‘was published for the sake of general circulation’, and has ‘propagated universally the critical talents and fine taste of their editor’. (Dibdin)) (Provenance: In ink on the front pastedown: ‘E libris Capel Berrow e Coll. St Joh. Bapt. Oxon., 1736′ This is the English divine Capel Berrow, 1716-1782. He matriculated a commoner of St. John’s College at Oxford in 1734, proceeded B.A. 1738, and M.A. of Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1758. He became curate of St. Botolph’s, Aldersgate (1741), and afterwards of St. Austin’s, and in 1744 was chosen lecturer of St Benedict’s, Paul’s Wharf. In 1766 Capel Barrow was rector of Rossington, Northamptonshire. His ‘A Lapse of Human Souls in a State of Pre-existence, the only Original Sin and the Ground Work of the Gospel Dispensation’, published in 1766, is his only book now remembered. (See his Wikipedia article)) (Collation: A8, a8, b2; B-X8, Y2 (leaf Y2 verso blank) (Photographs on request)