‎EURIPIDES (+) JOSHUA BARNES (edt.).‎
‎Euripidis Quae Extant Omnia: Tragoediae Nempe XX. 2 parts. - [THE CELEBRATED BARNES-EDITION]‎

‎Cambridge, ex officina Johan. Hayes [...], 1694. Folio. In a nice a bit later full vellum binding over wooden boards with five raised bands with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. With blindstamped ornamentation to boards. Title-page with a few dots and marks to upper margin. Pp. 1-30 in part 2 with brownspotting. Very light occassional marginal miscolouring throughout, otherwise a very nice and clean copy. With parallel-text in Greek and Latin. (8), LVI, 330" (2), 529, (43) pp. + two engraved portraits depicting respectively Joshua Barnes and Euripides‎

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‎First edition of Joshua Barnes’ famous Euripides-edition. ""The merits of all preceding editions are eclipsed by this celebrated one of Joshua Barnes. Fabricius observes that 'the text is accurately revised and printed, the metrical rules of Canter diligently corrected, and the entire ancient scholia on the first seven plays subjoined and enriched by excerpta from a manuscript in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The notes of various learned men, and those of Barnes accompany the scholia" the fragments of Euripides are carefully collected and displayed, with Greek and Latin notes as far as verse 2068" lastly, there are some epistles, attributed to Euripides.'""(Dibdin). “In 1694, Joshua Barnes, the eccentric British scholar (and poet) of Greek who the next year would become Regius Professor at the University of Cambridge, published his long-awaited Euripidis quae extant omnia. This was an enormous edition of Euripides’ works which contained every scrap of Euripidean material—dramatic, fragmentary, and biographical —that Barnes had managed to unearth.” (Hanink, The Life of the Author in the Letters of “Euripides”)‎