Of modern
editions, the following may be noticed: --
De Anima: Torstrik, 1862; Trendelenburg, 2nd
edition, 1877, with English translation, E.
He merely fears, and the reason may be seen in the second volume of this
edition, that the sap may have been withdrawn from that ancient soil of architecture which has been for so many centuries the best field for art.
The author ventures to take this opportunity to thank his readers for the kind reception they have accorded to the successive
editions of this tale during the last twelve years.
They had brought out a first
edition of fifteen hundred copies and been dubious of selling it.
1610, a learned Swiss, Isaac Nicholas Nevelet, sent forth the third printed
edition of these fables, in a work entitled "Mythologia Aesopica." This was a noble effort to do honor to the great fabulist, and was the most perfect collection of Aesopian fables ever yet published.
It is only to be regretted [49] that in the later collected
edition of the works those two magical old volumes are broken up and scattered under other headings.
(6) This paragraph is not in the original
editions.
In earlier
editions, the last line reads, "Of the four valiant men whose history we have related, there now no longer remained but one single body; God had resumed the souls." Dumas made the revision in later
editions.
Especially interesting are fifteen or twenty first
editions of Hawthorne's books inscribed to Mr.
A great topographical blunder occurred here in former
editions. The bloody battle alluded to in the text, fought and won by King Harold, over his brother the rebellious Tosti, and an auxiliary force of Danes or Norsemen, was said, in the text, and a corresponding note, to have taken place at Stamford, in Leicestershire, and upon the river Welland.
I hope that the list of available inexpensive
editions of the chief authors may suggest a practical method of providing the material, especially for colleges which can provide enough copies for class use.