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An advertisement, concerning the printing and publishing of ancient and other usefull books.
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University of Oxford.
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1680
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Wing O858B; ESTC R214674
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An Advertisment concerning the Printing and Publishing of Ancient and other Vsefull Books VVHereas diverse Persons of eminent Quality and Learning have made it their complaint that several usefull and necessary Books are lost to the World and never likely to be publisht because men of Trade only intent upon their gain will not be at the expence and hazard of such impressions as chiefly point at the honor and improvement of knowledge and endeavor to frustrate the design lately conceiv'd in this place of publishing from MSS. copies in Libraries considerable Writers not yet Printed and of making more correct and perfect editions of many of the ancient Fathers and Authors by collating them with MSS. copies that have not yet bin consider'd and also of bringing down the excessive price of books and advancing the Printing manufacture in this Nation And whereas we the undertakers for the Press in the University of Oxford have bin earnestly desir'd by the said honourable Persons that we would effectually proceed in the editions of those books which we have publicly declar'd to be ready for the Press and have propounded others themselves which they esteem equally desirable to which our answer was that we are and shall be alwaies ready to Print whatever Book shall be propos'd to us for the public service in whatever Language and Faculty it happen to be and shall take care for the accurate correction thereof provided that there shall be certainly taken off five hundred copies of every book when it is printed which offer the said honorable Persons have approved and have desir'd that it might be publicly signified not doubting but that so many will be found to join with them as would make up the number requir'd and free the Press from dependance upon men of trade and other hazards and also open a way for the publishing of all usefull books In consideration of the premises and compliance with the desires above exprest we the Undertakers for the Press in the University of Oxford do publicly offer tha if twenty five Persons shall please so far to promite this affair as to make a correspondence each with twenty Persons for whom they will be responsible that they will join in the before mention's engagement of taking off such book or books as they desire to have printed that then the edition of the said book or books shall immediatly be set in hand with according to the direction and appointment of the said five and twenty Persons or the major part of them who shall order the Paper Character disposition of the Work and price thereof and the book or books when finisht shall be deliver'd to the hands or order of the said five and twenty Persons for the use of themselves and those whom they correspond with Which course shall be continued fromm time to time upon the terms above exprest Books in the THEATER Press upon the account of the Undertakers of the University besides those set in hand with by M. Pitt and his Partners JOsephus his Works Gr. Lat. St. Cyprians Works Lat. Ptolemies Harmonics Gr. Lat. Job Scotus Erigena of the Division of Nature Lat. Lactantius his Works Lat. A Comment on Hosea by Dr. Pocock English The four Evangelists in he Egyptian Tongue Books ready for the Press Damascius of the Principles of things Gr. never Printed Jo. Antiochen Hist. Gr. Lat. never Printed Arabic Proverbs to the number of six thousand never Printed Juchasin or an account of Learned men among the Jews Heb. Lat. The New Testament in Greek diligently revised and collated with many MSS. not before met with The Targum on the Books of Chronicles Heb. Lat. by Mr. Sam. Clerk A Concordance of the Septuagint according to the Greek Alphabet Cesars Commentaries in Lat. revised and Illustraed with Figures The Epistles of Libanius Gr. never Printed The Saxon Glossary and Etymologicon of Mr. Francis Junius never Printed The Letters of Thomas Becket Lat. never yet Printed English-Historians in Latin not yet extant such as are The Annals of England by N. Trivet with the continuation of Adam Merimuth The Annals of Burton The English Chronicle by Peter de Ickham The Antiquities of Glastenbury by William of Malmsbury His fifth Book of Bishops The History of England by Jo. Ross The Chronicle of S. Swithins Monastery The Annals of England by Th. Otterburn Chron. of the Monastry of Mailrose Chron. of England by Jo. Merilynch Chron. of the Monastry of St. Edmund The Genealogy of the Kings of England and Catalogue of Abbots of Glassenbury History of Bishops of Bath and Wells The Title of Edward the third to the Kingdom of France Severall Tracts of Sir Henry Spelman in English never yet Printed Commentaries on severall Books of the Holy Scripture in English never Printed Books making ready for the Press Justin Martyr and other of the Greek Fathers revised in their Text and new Translated Several Acts of the Ancient Martyrs Lat. not yet Printed Plutarch and other Classical Greek Writers Collated with MSS. and new Translated Several Greek Councils never Printed The Commentaries of Saadias and other Robbins on part of the H. Bible in Arabic net yet Printed Math. Quaestor against the Latins or Roman Church Gr. never Printed The Ancient Mathematicians as Euclid Archimedes Apollonius Pappus Serenus c. Gr. Lat. Collated with MSS. some of them never ye Printed Heraclius the Emperor's Astronomy Gr. Lat. never Printed Vettius Valens Astrol. Gr. Lat. never Printed Cyrills Gloss Gr. never Printed The Ancient Greek Grammarians as Herodian his Epitome of the 20 Books of Theodosius never Printed Chaeroboscus his Canons never Printed Porphyries Gram. never Printed Herodians Scholia on Homer never Printed Several Scholia on the Greek Poets not yet Printed The Poliorcetics of Athenaeus Bito and others never Printed The Misna Heb. Lat. Dionys Exig as it supposed his Catena on the Epistles of S. Paul in Syriac never Printed Abdollatiph Ebn Yuseph Bagdadensis Arab. Lat. of things remarkable in Egypt Abulfedas Geogr. Arab. Lat. never Printed The Liturgie of the Coptites in the Egyptian Tongue The Psalter in the Egyptian Tongue The Writers of the British History many of which were never Printed or not in the Volume put forth at Frankford A Grammar of the Malaian Tongue The Saxon Homilies The Saxon Chronicle and other Writers of the Saxon History a great part of which never Printed The Saxon and English Laws till Acts of Parliament many of which never Printed The Writers of the English History put forth by Sr. Henry Savil and others Collated with better Copies and exceedingly much corrected Jo. Lelands Works several of which never yet Printed Lives of eminent Persons both Foreigners and English many of which never Printed Several Latin Classical Writers Collated with MSS. and illustrated with Annotations