‎DIONYSIUS LONGINUS (1st cent. a.D.) ‎
‎ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ ΛΟΓΓΙΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΥΨΟΥΣ ΥΠΟΜΝΗΜΑ / Dionysii Longini de Sublimitate Commentarius [...] Nova Versione [.‎

‎Zacharias PEARCE (1690-1774), Londinii, ex Officiani Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts. 1724. Large quarto, [9], xv, 187, 28, [15] p. with engraved frontispiece, headings and tail pieces. Greek and latin text, light stamp on title page margin. Longinus (1st century AD) was a writer, to whom is attributed the above leading work of literary criticism of antiquity ("On Height"). It deals with the high and majestic style of speech in both prose and poetry. The author combines his personal views with a wealth of examples from Homer, Plato, Demosthenes, Sappho and others (even from the Old Testament). The work was already appreciated in its time, and the views expressed in it, many of which were judged to be forerunners of later philological values, played an important role in the literary and aesthetic concerns of modern times. Contemporary, full calf binding with wear, gilt stamp on the cover; visibly rubbed and bumped along edges and corners, weak first hinge (restored internally). Clean an very tight inside. Brunet III - 1152, Hoffmann III - pp. 21. Rare and Good copy. 330,00 € ‎

Reference : G513

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