Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Lucani, M. Annaei) Lucan

Pharsalia, Sive De Bello Civili Caesaris et Pompeii

      Joannem Blaeuw, Amsterodami (Amsterdam) 1643 - [10], 11-330, [6], full-vellum, title, author and date in manuscript to spine. Lettering to spine faded, vellum a little grubby, damage to vellum at foot of front board, tape repairs to vellum on the inside of the front cover. Text is slightly browned throughout, but generally fairly clean. Engraved title page, with notes by Grotius and Thomas Farnaby. "Farnaby, Thomas (1574/5-1647), schoolteacher and grammarian . According to J. T. Cliffe, he was ‘[p]erhaps the most celebrated private schoolmaster in England’ . The success of his establishment allowed Farnaby to devote himself to a long-held obsession: the systemization of the grammatical principles of classical Latin and Greek in print. Commencing with the satires of Juvenal and Persius (1612), he annotated many of the classical authors Seneca, Martial, Lucan, Ovid, Virgil, and Terence in a manner intended to render their works intelligible to schoolboys. From 1625, with the publication of his Index rhetoricus (incorporating the rules of his Figuræ, tropi et schemata of 1616), he established a European reputation in the rhetorical tradition, and numerous foreign editions appeared" (Oxford DNB) [Attributes: Hard Cover]