Author: Tacitus, Publius Cornelius:
Title: [...] Opera, Quae Extant. Integris J. Lipsii, Rhenani, Ursini, Mureti, Pichenae, Merceri, Gruteri, Acidalii, Grotii, Freinshemii, & selectis aliorum commentariis illustrata. Joh. Fred. Gronovius recensuit, & suas notas passim adjecit. Accedunt Jacobi Gronovii excerpta ex variis lectionibus M.S. Oxoniensis.
Description: Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Daniel Elzevir, 1672. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. [xxxii], 1224; [ii], 899, [xi], [ccxxiii]. Additional engraved title-page to first vol., woodcut device to title-page, woodcut head & tail pieces & initials. Occasional light foxing, small loss to fore-edge margin of engraved title-page, vol. II with one front endpaper excised and a marginal scorch-hole to Y7. Late 19th-century red straight-grain morocco, spines and boards blind tooled, gilt titles, a.e.g, green endpapers. Joints, endcaps and corners a bit rubbed, a few faint spots and smudges but very good overall. To front paste-down of each volume a 20th-century bookplate of James Elwin Millard. To front paste-down of vol. I, small bookseller's ticket of Edward Rainford of 12 Red Lion Passage. To preliminary blank, MS extract from Dibdin. Described by Dibdin as more 'beautiful and valuable' than the 1685 Bleau edition, though he observes that the Bipont editors consider that 'its accuracy is not equal to its beauty'. Contains the notes of various commentators including J.F. Gronovius, who unfortunately died before the work was completed. Willems 1479; Dibdin II (4th ed.) 453

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