Georgii Buchanani Scoti, poetarum sui seculi facile principis, Opera omnia, ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata

Title

Georgii Buchanani Scoti, poetarum sui seculi facile principis, Opera omnia, ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata

Creator

Buchanan, George, 1506-1582 author

Publisher

Edinburgi: Apud Robertum Freebairn Typographum Regium

Date

MDCCXV. 1715

Format

2 v. ([2], xxii, 26, [6], 466, 37, [5], 41, [3], 30, 5, 13-18, [4], 104, [6], 15, [5], 19-20, 23-24, 4, 241, [1], 16, 36, 38, pages; [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 40 cm 2o.

Description

In v.1, leaf 4K2 mis-signed 3K2.
Title pages printed in red and black and enclosed within double-rule.
Added engraved title page to volume 1, signed "Andr. Iohnston excud. M.V.dr Gucht sculp.
Title page to volume 2: "Georgii Buchanani Scoti, poetarum sui seculi facile principis, Opera omnia, ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata. Tomus secundus: In quo continentur, Poemata ejus omnia: Item, Rudimenta grammatices Thomae Linacri ex Anglico sermone in Latinum versa, De prosodia libellus, Ad viros sui seculi clarissimos eorumque ad eundem epistolæ ex ipsis autographis magna ex parte descriptae. Accessit De metris Buchananaeis libellus."
Volume 2, part 2, has separate title page (following 34 p. sequence) dated MDCCXIV: "Georgi Buchanani Scoti Poematum pars altera ..."

Provenance

Woolf, D.R. (Daniel R.), former owner,
Library copy was rebound in 2015.
The restoration note was removed to an item file.

Contributor

Gift of Daniel Woolf,
Ruddiman, Thomas, 1674-1757,
Johnston, Andrew, active 1700, engraver,
Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725, engraver,
Freebairn, Robert, -1747, printer,
Linacre, Thomas, 1460-1524. Rudimenta grammatices

Language

Latin

Identifier

DA775 .B83 1715,
English Short Title Catalogue, T144415

Files

DA775B831715Frontispiece.jpg
DA775B831715.jpg

Citation

Buchanan, George, 1506-1582 author, “Georgii Buchanani Scoti, poetarum sui seculi facile principis, Opera omnia, ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed April 27, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/907.