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101 fonsiemealy.ie Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 741. Caulfield (S.F.A.) & Seward (B.C.) The Dictionary of Needlework, thick 4to Lond. n.d. Second Edn., hf. title, unusual embossed and other cold. plts., orig. cloth, spine faded. (1) €100 - €150 742. With Attractive Coloured Plates Butler (Arthur G.) & Frohawk (F.W.) British Birds with their Nests and Eggs, 6 vols. lg. 4to Lond. n.d. With coloured & other plts., t.e.g., in gilt decor. cloth. (6) €200 - €300 743. With Original Prospectus for theWork Jamieson (John) An Etymological Dictionary of The Scottish Language, [- Supplement], 4 vols. lg. 4to Edin. 1840 [41] Second Edn., Ed. by John Johnstone. Duplicate title pages, cont. full vellum mor. labels. B.P.’s. A clean copy. (4) * With the original printed ‘ Prospectus’ for the First Edition of this work 8pp 8vo, loosely inserted. €220 - €350 742 743 Virgil: P. Vergili Maronis Codex Antiquissimus a Rufio Turcio Approniano V.C. qui nunc Florentiae in Bibliotheca Mediceo - Laurentina adservatur bono public typis descriptus Anno MDCCXLI, 4to Florence (Typis Mannianis) 1741. First Edition Thus. Hf. title, engd. title, & a red & bl. title with engd. vignette, engd. head & tail & initials, text partially in red & black, XXXV, 459, last leaf laid down & 1 sm. repair p. 457, otherwise a very clean copy. Later full calf, gilt fillet border, raised bands. B.P. (1) The Codex Mediceus of Virgil (Vergil) (Florence, Laur. 39.1 + Vatican lat. 3225, f.76), a fifth century manuscript written in rustic capitals, preserved in the Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana) in Florence, with a single leaf preserved in the Vatican Library, contains the Ecologues from VI.48, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. A subscription at the end of the Ecologues records that the manuscript was corrected at Rome by Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius , consul in 494. Reynolds states that the manuscript “found its way to Bobbio, and was still there in 1467.” ……….. Wikipedia. In 1741 the Codex Mediceus was first published in print in an extraordinary typographic reproduction, or typographic facsimile, planned and edited by Vatican librarian and philologist Pier Francesco Foggini . The edition, printed by Manniani in Florence, was printed with types imitating the uncial script of the original, in red and black. By combining different sizes of types, the printer was also able to include the annotations and emendations of Asterius and Laetus. The edition began with an engraved vignette that reproduced a fragment of the manuscript in more literal detail. In Printing Types I (1962, p. 171) Daniel Berkeley Updike commented on this edition as follows: “A curious piece of Italian typography, very characteristic of the eighteenth century, is an edition of Virgil (P.Vergilii Maronis, Codex Antiquissimus, A Rufio Turcio Aproniano V. C. Distinctus et Emendatus. . . Florentiae. Typis Mannianis), published in 1741 at Florence, and printed by Joseph Manni, a person of scholarly tastes. It is set entirely in old style capitals with a few characters imitating those of an ancient and famous manuscript of Virgil in rustic characters in the Laurentian Library, Florence. The preface exhibits a fairly accurate engraved reproduction of a few lines of the model on which the book was based, and in the text the ingenious introduction of but three specially cut letters give the general effect of a font of ‘rustic’ type. Thus the work displays that amazing audacity in arriving at a striking effect, notwithstanding inaccurate details and economy of method, which was typical of Italian printing at that time. Issued at a place and period which appears unfavourable to such a venture, and dedicated to lovers of the Fine Arts, it also indicates there has always been a public sufficiently sympathetic to encourage such publications. The volume is enlivened by occasional rubrication which gives it a distinguished air.” Exceptional Copy. €1000 - €1500 738. A Most Desirable Publication