yes, bardo, i occasionally check the Powell’s site but their prices are arbitrarily high and even ignoring those there tend not to be too many books on there that I really want: more prettily-bound or illustrated tomes than editions of great importance.
three things i forgot to add in the above list:
Porson - Hebuba, Medea, Orestes, Phoenissae (bound together) - 1828
Montagu-Butler - Crossing the Bar and Other Translations (not published) - 1890 (ex H. Barrington-Smith)
Fordyce - Two MS sets of twelve lines of iambic verse, composed when Fellow of Jesus Coll., Oxon. c.1935
Porson’s Hecuba – that’s where “Porson’s Law” was most extensively formulated, is it not? Is the 1828 edition a fair reprint of the 1802 second edition with preface?
What’s your source for the very impressive assemblage of letters, notes, and ephemera by English classicists that you’ve acquired? The only stab I’ve taken in this direction is a MS of lecture notes from a course on the history of Roman literature, taught by a prolific but not very outstanding 19th century German scholar, Theodor Birt, that I came across cheaply in Heidelburg, and a two-page autograph poem in hendecasyllables sent by Gottfried Hermann to one of the rectors at Schulpforta which was, unfortunately, not as cheap! You must also come across some interesting ex libris in Cambridge bookstores.
A very clean and fairly priced copy of Lachmann’s Lucretius appeared on ebay Deutschland a few months ago, but mysteriously vanished before the auction date. Sorry that this information doesn’t help, but I will be sure to let you know if I see the volume reappear.
it is nice to see that your knowledge of scholarship matches your learning, Adam. yes, it was the 1802 edition of the originally anonymous 1797 Hecuba that contained Porson’s supplement to the preface, in which his canon is stated with beautiful succinctness. the 1828 edition i have, like the 1826, is Scholefield’s collection of the 1821 reprints of the four plays.
being in Cam. (Cambs, not Mass.) is the strongest factor behind the ex libris itews i have, many of which are just given away free by the Classics Faculty (such as the Sandys books and Chadwick’s OCTs). letters come across hidden in all sorts of places - at the moment i’m negotiating to get a letter by Gilbert Wakefield (rather an erotic one, to his lover), without purchasing the extremely pricy book in which it lies.
all the best,
~D
p.s. I would be most indebted if you kept your eyes peeled for Lachmann’s Luc. or Baehren’s Cat., or indeed any others in that list!