Dictys Cretensis et Dares Phrygius De bello et excidio Trojae, in usum Serenissimi Delphini, cum interpretatione Annae Daceriae. Accedunt in hac nova editione notae variorum integrae; nec non Josephus Iscanus, cum notis Sam. Dresemii. Numismatibus & gemmis, historiam illustrantibus exornavit Lud. Smids, ... Dissertationem de Dictye Cretensi praefixit Jac. Perizonius by Dictys Cretensis: [Dares Phrygius:] [Joseph of Exeter:] (Lud. Smids, Editor) - 1702

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Georgium Gallet, 1702. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary full vellum hardback with with raised spine bands, handwritten title and blind-tooled border and centre-piece to upper and lower covers. Firm and square, strong joints, no splits, just mildly darkened. Contents slightly age toned but generally clean and tight. No pen-marks save the former owner name of William R. Lyall to head of title-page (William Rowe Lyall (1788–1857) was Dean of Canterbury from 1845 until his death. He was the younger brother of Gerorge Lyall (1778/9–1853), MP for the City of London and chairman of the East India Company). This copy not from a public library and so no such stamps or labels. Size: 8vo (247mm x 202mm); collation: pp. [lxxxiv], 177, [lxxv], 54, [22], 168, [viii], including 1 engraved frontispiece as part of the first gathering, 1 additional engraved frontispiece, and 6 further plates. Also includes the final errata leaf. Title page is in red and black, engraved head-pieces, woodcut decorations. Comprises The Delphin edition of three Latin poems on the Trojan war, by the pseudonymous authors 'Dictys of Crete' (4th-cent.) and 'Dares of Phrygia' (5th/6th-cent.), and by the English monk and crusader Joseph of Exeter (d.1224), they are evidence for the continuity of the Homeric legends through the Latin Middle Ages. Basing his edition of Dictys and Dares on Anne Dacier's Delphin edition of 1680, with notes also from an edition of Strassburg, 1691, the editor Ludolf Smids has added numismatic illustrations and his own commentary, and an essay by Jacobus Perizonius (1651-1715). The text and commentary for Joseph of Exeter are from an edition of Frankfurt, 1623 (cf. Schweiger). Schweiger II 332.