252 writings on Persius, or a total of 1029 titles; my collection numbers 295, 213, and 152 under the respective heads, or a total of 660 titles.
In compiling the bibliography I have used, besides the books themselves, the printed catalogues of many great libraries and such general works as those of Fabricius, Hain, Copinger, Reichling, Dibdin, Moss, Brüggemann, and Proctor. Some information has also been obtained from the lists (quite incomplete) of Persiana given in certain editions and translations (see nos. 370, 379, 380, 394, 401, 430, 437, 483, 547a, 550, 556, 561, 578, 645, and 722; Tarlier's bibliography of translations, no. 821, I have never been able to procure, in spite of advertising for it).
The arrangement of the material is, as already indicated, in three parts. Part I consists of editions, arranged chronologically; Part II, of translations, arranged alphabetically by languages and chronologically by translations under each language; Part III, of writings on Persius, where I have not included mere reviews of editions and translations except in a few important instances, nor articles in general histories of Roman literature. An asterisk (*) preceding a number signifies that I myself, a dagger (†) that Mr. Fearing, saw and collated the book in question. To the titles of incunabula and of a certain number of other early imprints (nos. 1-127) I have naturally paid special attention, endeavoring to indicate the founts of type, punctuation, and divisions of lines in the titles and colophons of books which I have myself seen or of which I have received exact collations from correspondents. It is to be noted, however, that as a collation printed in large capitals is somewhat offensive to the eye, I have used small capitals after the first letter; thus, in the title of the editio princeps (no. i), the letter F at the beginning is no larger in the original book than the capitals which follow it (see plate I). But Roman numerals in dates are printed in the founts of the originals. The Italic abbreviation (see the table below) which immediately follows the collation of a title designates the library containing the copy from which my collation was made. In many instances I have also indicated other libraries where copies are to be found, though without the intention of giving an exhaustive list. My general wish has been to point to at least one place in this country and one in Europe where copies of each book entered in Parts I and II now exist; but in Part III, where the titles are largely drawn from periodical literature found in every library of importance, I have seldom thought it worth while to refer to any foreign library. This third part will, I hope, be of use to classical scholars and to seminaries in classical philology.
Beneath the collations I have frequently added further information about the books or about the matters of interest in my own copies of them, together with references to bibliographical manuals. These last references occur chiefly in cases of incunabula. There are 65 incunabula of Persius (nos. 1-61, 659, 679, 701, and 795), six of which are not mentioned by Hain, Copinger, or Reichling (nos. 15, 20, 49, 51, 52, 54). There are 21 of the incunabula in my collection.
