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Gregory of Nazianzenus: : In Iulianum Invectivae Duae. Cum scholiis Graecis nunc primum editis [...]Omnia, ex bibliotheca [...] Henrici Savilii, edidit R. Montagu [...]

4to. pp. [viii], 172, [lxxxvi]. Greek text, woodcut headpieces, minor waterstaining to first few leaves, light browning; contemporary blind-stamped calf, probably German, with oval ornament on the covers, a little wear to joints and corners. Signature of Friedrich Münter, dated 1824, at foot of title-page; book label of George Dunn of Woolley Hall.

Sir Henry Savile, translator of Tacitus and provost of Eton College from 1596, established the first press at Eton at his own expense and with the assistance of John Norton who held the specialist post of King’s Printer in Latin, Greek and Hebrew (1603-30). This edition of Gregory’s invectives against the Emperor Julian the Apostate, composed c. AD 362 and printed here with scholia and other material, was one of the two earliest books issued by the press, being contemporary with Savile’s highly regarded edition of Chrysostom., STC 12346

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