BRUNCK, Richard (Ed.)

Strassburg, Typis J. H. Heitz, apud Io. Gothofr. Bauer et Socium, 1772-76. 8vo. Engr. title,+ xxxiv,+ 506; engr. title,+ 529,+ (1); engr. title,+ 334,+ 319,+ (1) pp. Printed on thick paper. Pages 205-210 in part one are folding. Slight stain on front edge and affecting margins at the end of part one. Contemporary calf, gilt slightly rubbed spines, gilt boards and yellow edges. Three volumes. Schwiger p. 31. Not in Hoffman? The title pages are engraved by Weis. Richard Brunck (1729-1803) was a critic and classical scholar in Strassbourg who spent considerable sums of money in publishing editions of the Greek classics. He later took an active part in the French revolution and was imprisoned at Besançon and lost his pension so that he had to sell his library. The first work he edited was this Greek anthology, ”Analecta veterum Poetarum Graecorum” in which his ”innovations on the established mode of criticism startled European scholars. As an editor he made no commentaries but occupied himself only with the text”.