Epigrammatum delectus ex omnibus tum veteribus, tum recentioribus poetis accuraté decerptus cum dissertatione de vera pulchritudine & adumbrata, in qua, excertis principiis, rejectionis & selectionis epigrammarum causæ redduntur. Adjectæ sunt elegantes sententiæ ex antiquis poætis parce, fed feveriore judicio, selectæ. Cum brevioribus sententiis ac proverbiis ex autoribus Græcis & Latinis. Quibus subjungitur alterius delectus specimen ex nuperis maxime poëtis ab electoribus prætermissis
Contributors: Nicole, Pierre, 1625-1695; Tate, James, 1801-1863, former owner; Innys and Manby; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: Editio undecima, nuperis longe emendatior. In usum Scholæ Etonensis.
Publisher: Impensis Gul. Innys & Ric. Manby, in area occidentali D. Pauli
Published: 1740
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Latin Epigrams; Early works to 1800
Notes: Compiled by Claude Lancelot, with a dissertation by Pierre Nicole to whom the whole work is sometimes attributed.

The first leaf contains the engraved arms of Eton.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T115492

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.