Elegiarum Libri IV. cum Commentario Perpetuo Petri Burmanni Secundi. Et Multis Doctorum Notis Ineditis. Opus Burmanni Morte Interruptum Laurentius Santenius Absolvit. by Propertius, Sextus Aurelius. with editing and commentary by Pieter Burman the Younger. Finished by Laurentius Santenius - 1780

Utrecht ( lat. Trajecti ad Rhenum ): Barth. ( Bartholemeus ) Wild, 1780. First edition. Vellum bound. Good. Quarto 2 volumes in one. Vellum has repair at hinge, soiling to boards and edges of textblock. Foxing and some staining to first endpapers as well. Ownership signatures of "B. Hath Sec: 1797", "Hon'bl Mr. Powlett D.D." on pastedown in old browning ink and, in pencil, "D. R. Shackleton Bailey / February 1952" on flyleaf, along with a card of Philip G. Matthews, Christ (sic) College glued to pastedown. Shackleton Bailey was a noted Ciceronian scholar who worked both in England and the US. A 50's vintage Blackwell's bookshop ticket on the lower edge of the pastedown. [10], xiv, [2], 990 p. (actually 996 p. : the pagination repeats 627 to 632), [6], including index and errata.. 6 slightly raised bands. Vellum is ruled on boards with a design a center. One illustration at A2, reproducing a commemorative stelae found in 1722 honoring Propertius. A still respected edition of Propertius and a thorough scholarly effort by the younger Burmann, relying on earlier scholars such as Brockhusius, Scaliger, Heinsius, and Francius Modius, and a great other works both good and bad.