Item 648 - "The Poetics of Aristotle, translated from the Greek, with notes" by Charles Buller

1 vol. bound in vellum, with one sheet laid in loose

Purchased from Bernard Quaritch Ltd, Feb. 2022.

Bound unpublished manuscript with a title page laid out as if printed, including "London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1824" at bottom, with "London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars" on the verso of the half title. In the 13 page preface Buller takes issue with the editor of the second edition of Tyrwhitt's translation of The Poetics, arguing that much of Aristotle's works have been superseded by later works and discoveries and disparaging an Oxford education as never looking beyond Aristotle to Burke, Schlegel, Bacon, Locke, and other later writers. With a short post scriptum moderating the tone of his attack on the editor of the second edition of Tyrwhitt, instead placing the blame on the man's education at Oxford. The translation contains only part of Note I, and appears to be either incomplete or missing the rest of the notes, which appear in the body of the text as running up to XXVII.

Accompanied by a sheet of paper with notes in a different hand in French, Latin, and Greek laid in loose, quoting Thucydides on the plague of Athens.