Ἐπιστολαὶ … Paris 1596

Ἐπιστολαὶ. Epistolae Graecae. Cum Latina interpretatione & notis [by Josiah Mercier]. — Parisii, Apud Marcum Orry. M.D.LXXXXVI.

Paris, Orry, 1596

17th calf, spine gilt. Joints splitted, lacking head-band und parts of the lowest compartment of the spine. Light foxing and a number of markings in lead pencil. An early owner has added the name of the editor at the end of the dedication and the beginning of the annotations: Iosias Mercerus (Josiah Mercier, c. 1560-1626, son of the philologue and Hebraist Jean Mercier): „was a member of the Council of Henry IV, and produced editions of the Ibis of Ovid (1568), the dictionary of Nonius Marcellus (1583 etc.), the Letters of Aristaenetus, and the treatise of Apuleius, De Deo Socratis (1625). Mercier marks the transition from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century. Three years before his death in 1626, his daughter was married to one of the leading scholars of the seventeenth century, Claudius Salmasius.“ (Sandys II 210).
Cf. Jean (c.1525-1570) et Josias (c. 1560-1626) Mercier. L’Amour de la philologie à la Renaissance et au début de l’âge classique. Actes du colloque d’Uzès (2 et 3 mars 2001), réunis par François Roudaut. Paris 2007. – ustc 199130. This is the second edition of the Greek text and, as Hoffmann II 239 notes, rarer than the ed. princ. of 1566.