Longinus, Dionysios (pseudo-longinos). Peri hypsous hypomnima. De sublimitate commentarius (graece et latine), quem nova versione donavit, perpetuis notis illustravit Zacharias Pearce. 4 Bl., XV, 187, 28 pp., 8 Bl. With stung frontispiece, coat of arms copper and text copper. 28.5 x 21.5 cm. Marbled half-perch band around 1890 with hs. Title. London, Jacob Tonson and Johannis Watts, 1724. Schweiger 189. – First edition edited by the English bishop Zachariah Pearce (1690-1774). "New Recension by Manuscripts and the Princeps, with details of the variants" (Schweiger). As is well known, the treatise on the sublime of the pseudo-longino is one of the most powerful poetry-theoretical works of antiquity with far-reaching influence on Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Kant, etc. Splendid quart print on solid paper with Latin-Greek parallel text. The Frontispiz shows an ancient round of scholars in a library with the busts of Demosthenes, Homer and Platon. – At the beginning and at the end slightly stained, otherwise clean and well preserved. Editionsphilologically important edition in a copy from the library of the "Werkbücherei Gubener Lederfabrik Volksauser Betrieb", with corresponding notes and amortization stamps on the frontispiece verso.