Original First Edition of 1812 - in Latin and Greek:

"Ricardi Porsoni Adversaria: notae and emendationes in poetas graecos quas ex schedis manuscripts Porsoni apud Collegium SS. Trinitatis Cantabrigiae repositis deprompserunt and ordinarunt nec non indicibus instruxerunt", by James Henry Monk and Charles James Blomfield; published by the Trinity College, Cambridge [Cantabrigiae: sumptibus Collegii SS. Trinitatis], London 1812.

Provenance:

From the library of Augustus Taber Murray, Ph.D., American expert, translator and professor of ancient Greek literature., signed on the front endpaper, and contains a few pen notes in his writing.

Hard boards, cloth, leather spine with three raised bands [some wear]; 5.1/2" x 9"; antique book dealer label inside cover, "A.T. Murray" and "Oct.12-1886" is pen-written on the front endpaper; xvii + 334 pages, a little foxing, a little wear, a few page corner folds, a few pages are not opened as issued [see photo]; very good/ fine condition.

"Notes and Emendations on the Greek poets, collected and arranged from the manuscript loose papers of Richard Porson, deposited in Trinity College, with indexes of reference, by J.H. Monk, A.M. and C.J. Bloomfield, A.M.; printed at the expense of the College."

"Richard Porson ... employed his extraordinary skill in detecting the corruptions of ancient authors, and in restoring their genuine text with great general sobriety and temperance. His posthumous productions, contained in loose papers, and the margins of his books, were purchased by the heads of Trinity College for a thousand guineas, and it is from these treasures that the present valuable pages are drawn forth. The task was extremely tedious: for the materials, though written in a beautiful but very small hand, were dispersed through little notebooks, loose sheets and fragments of paper, and the margins of more than two hundred volumes. Notes and hints referring to the same passage were often found in distant and variable positions; and these were to be brought together. Every thing was to be fairly transcribed, though at a severe expense of labour and eyesight: and the detached results, like the leaves of the Sibyls, "quasi folia Sibyllina" were to be digested into due arrangement and service." [excerpt from the book review published in 1815].

Provenance:

Augustus Taber Murray (1866-1940) was American classical philologist, Professor of Greek at Stanford University. Professor of classical literature at Stanford (1892-1932; emeritus, 1932-1940) and member of the Society of Friends. Author of several books on ancient Greek literature; author of new Homer translation. Murray served as Head of the Quaker congregation in Washington, D.C. during Hoover administration.

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