THE SATIRES OF ROMAN POETS JUVENAL & PERSIUS 1684 VELLUM BINDING

[JUVENAL - Decimus Junius Juvenalis; PERSIUS; Cornelis Schrevel]. D. Junii Juvenalis & Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae. Cum veteris scholiastae & Variorum Commentariis. Editio nova. Qua quid praestitum sit, praefatio ad Lectorem docebit. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam] Apud Henricum Wetstenium [Heinrich Wetstein]. MDCLXXXIV. [1684].

New edition. Two parts in one volume. Leather-bound. Hardback. Thick octavo (205 x 115 x 60 mm). Pp. [xlviii], 525, [92], 112, [18]. Latin text with commentary in double columns. Edited by Cornelis Schrevel. Bound in contemporary full vellum, gilt decorated, spine titles in black ink, red speckled page edges. Initial and terminal blanks present. With an additional engraved title-page. Title printed in red and black. Head-pieces. Decorative initials. "Auli Persii Flacci Satyrarum liber I. Cum notis variorum" has a divisional title-page, separate pagination and signatures as well as 18 final pages of index. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, some light wear to covers. Interior largely very well-preserved, with just a few brown spots.

Notes: A renown edition of the satires of Roman poets Juvenal and Persius - regarded as more beautiful and complete than the Elzevier edition (Brunet loc.cit.) Dibdin II. The Roman satirists Juvenal (c. 60-140) and Persius (34-64) are often published together. Of the stoic Persius is only a small collection of 6 satires preserved and he is considered difficult to read. Published here is also the so called ”Sulpiciae fabella”, a satire of uncertain date, ascribed to the poetess Sulpiciae who wrote erotic verses in the Flavian period. The 'Index Verborum' to Persius, according to Wetsten, the printer, is new, and occupies the last eighteen pages of the book.