Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe Printed Area Measurement_48 x 59.5 cm London and New York City

London and New York City

Contemporary Dutch vellum

library sold at auction in 1902: #63 of the new contributions added by Einstein and  Goldstein to their 1918 edition of Fagan’s ‘Collectors’ Marks’)

shortly before his retirement in 1934

A few marginal pencilled annotations are probably in his hand

Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe Printed Area Measurement_48 x 59.5 cm London and New York CityLongus: [Greek title: Longou Poimenikon, ton kata Daphnin kai Chloen, biblia tettara] Daphnide et Chloe, Libri Quatuor. Petrus Moll Snecanus J. V. D. & Gr. ling. profess. ord. in Acad. Franek. Frisior. recensuit, in Latinum sermonem vertit, notis & animadversionibus illustravit. Franekerae [Franeker], Joannis Arcerii, 1660 This is a scholarly edition of Longus' influential pastoral prose romance. Condition & Materials 4to. pp. [xx], 148, [ii], 121,