ELEGIAE.
[Text, including colophon, in Latin]. Pp. lxxxii+[4](Carminum initia ['beginnings of poems'], last colophon), 28 decorative initials; roy. 8vo; half parchment, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the spine faintly darkened; fore and bottom edges uncut; within green card slipcase with parchment fore-edges, spine and edges slightly faded; upper hinge tender, bookseller's sticker (William Salloch) and Bremer Bindery stamp at foot of lower pastedown, the upper endpapers a trifle foxed; Bremer Presse, Tolz, 1920. Edition limited to 270 numbered copies. Ransom Selective Check Lists Bremer 5 (page 255). *The title and initials were designed by Anna Simons. The text is based on that prepared by Eduardo Hiller for the Tauchnitz edition of 1885. 'Perhaps no other organization, private or public, has attempted closer coordination and interrelation of scholarship, type design, and book design' [Ransom]. Albius Tibullus (circa 55-19 BC) was considered by Quintilian to be the finest Roman elegist. His death was commemorated by Ovid in his Amores (Elegy IX, 'Upon the Death of Tibullus'). Item #179272
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