<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. f. [1] (blank), [13], pp. 299, [1] (blank), [7], [1] (blank). Mottled calf. Gilded spine, gilded boards edges; edges spread in red. Printer's device on title page. Includes initials; headpieces. Manuscript mark on front pastedown recto "O. V1.12," and on verso (other hand): "R VIII 32." Manuscript note on title page: "Est loci S. Maria de Jesu Montisfortini." Stamp 'M.D.I.P.D.R.D.I. C.G."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The rare first edition to incorporate the connective fragments said to have been found at Belgrade in 1688, but in fact forged – that is, probably composed or appropriated from a rhetorical exercise of an amateur classicist (see W. Stolz, Petrons Satyricon und François Nodot: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte literarischer Fälschungen. Mainz, 1987; Bib# 4102895/Fr# 374 in this collection) – by the military novelist François Nodot. Nodot published the work as a manuscript ‘discovery’ made by him in war-torn Dalmatia, together with his letter to François Charpentier, president of the Académie Française, announcing the discovery (11 October 1690), and Charpentier’s reply (9 November), welcoming it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">This copy has uncorrected preliminaries and a false imprint, and the edition is so scarce as to have eluded, save by report, the distinguished bibliographer of Petronius, Stephen Gaselee (see S. Gaselee, ‘Bibliography of Petronius’ in: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 10 (1909), pp. 141-233, number 56); F.L.A. Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie. Leipzig, 1834, vol. 2, chapter II, pp. 723-724 (‘erste und höchst seltne Ausgabe’); G.L. Schmeling &amp; J.H. Stuckey, A Bibliography of Petronius. Leiden, 1977, no. 85; Stolz 1. </span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">See Bib# 4102891/Fr# 369 in this collection for another copy of this first printing, a variant of the present one, preserving an evidently uncorrected state of the preliminaries.</span></font><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039112639707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>