London: Printed by J. Leake, for Peter Buck, 1697. First edition, separate issue. ESTC R14052; Wing B1928; cf. Bibliotheca Fictiva 39. The seminal treatise by Richard Bentley (1662-1742) on the authenticity of ancient texts, most notably the alleged letters of the 500 BC tyrant Phalaris, which Bentley convincingly demonstrated on.....
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931. First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed. A dialogue between the book collector and scholar, Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Walter Savage Landor, set in Villa Landor in Italy, where Landor had once lived and where Fiske later lived. The.....
Paris: Apud Mamertum Patissonium, in Officina Rob. Stephani, 1577. First edition edited by Joseph Scalinger. Adams C1156; Schreiber, The Estiennes, 248. The celebrated and often reprinted edition of Catullus and his two fellow Roman poets, Tibullus and Propertius, edited by French scholar Joseph Justus Scalinger (1549-1609), one of the most.....