Author: EURIPIDES.
Title: [Works, Latin and Greek]. Hai tou Euripidou Tragodiai Sozomenai. Euripidis Tragoediae Quae Supersunt, ex Recensione Samuelis Musgrave.
Description: Glasguae: Exccudebat Andreas Foulis, 1797. 10 volumes. 8vo, 207 x 130 mms., printed with recto and verso with same number but different leaves, bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt rules across spines, red leather labels; some slight drying of calf, and extremities very slightly worn. A very good set. The physician and classical scholar Samuel Musgrave (1732–1780) was born in Devon, lived for a while in Paris, moved to London, acquired his MD at Oxford in 1775 and published various pamphlets and books on medical topics. As a Greek scholar, he was, according to Alick Cameron in the Oxford DNB, "As a Greek scholar Musgrave had few superiors, and his great delight was the study and annotation of the works of Euripides. He himself was unable through want to publish a comprehensive edition of that author, but his extensive notes and collections, designed to form the basis of such a work, were published in four volumes in 1778 as Euripidis quae extant omnia; this edition continued to be embodied in numerous later editions after his death and is still respected as a contribution." This was the last significant production of the Foulis Press. Robert Hay Carnie, "Andrew Foulis the younger: some illustrative letters," The Bibliotheck; a Scottish Journal of Bibliography and Allied Topics (January 1, 1972). Gaskell N31173,

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