D. Iunii Iuvenalis Aquinatis Satirae XVI. Recensuit et annotationibus instruxit Ernestus Guilielmus Weber, Weissenseas, Philos. Dr. et Professor Gymnasii Wimariensis.

Weimar (Wimariae), In novo Bibliopolio, vulgo Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 1825. 8vo. X,380,(2 corrigenda) p. Half calf 22 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,505: 'Neue Recognition des Textes. Ruperti's Text liegt zum Grunde. Die Interpunktion ist vereinfacht. Die schwierigen Stellen sind trefflich erläutert'; Graesse 3,521; Not in Spoelder p. 554, Enkhuizen) (Details: Prize copy of the Gymnasium of Enkhuizen, including the prize, printed on thick paper. Spine divided by double gilt fillets. Gilt lettered shield in the 'second compartment') (Condition: Binding worn at the extremes. Owing to a binder's error the pages in the 23rd and 24th gathering (from p. 353 to 376) have been mixed up, and 4 of those leaves have been bound double) (Note: The Roman poet Juvenalis, ca. 55-140 AD, was the last and most influential of the Roman satirists. He 'uses names and examples from the past as protective covers for his exposés of contemporary vice and folly'. His main theme is the dissolution of the social fabric. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 501) § This Juvenal edition of 1825 was produced by the German schoolmaster Ernst Christian Wilhelm Weber, born in 1796 in Wissensee. In 1815 he went to Leipzig to study classical philology under Gottfried Hermann. In 1819 he published in Jena a dissertation 'Animadversiones in Juvenalis Satiras'. In 1820 he was appointed rector of the Gymnasium of Weimar, and 3 years later he received the title of professor. In 1826 the firm of Teubner published his edition of Persius. Another contribution to classical scholarship is his edition of Demosthenes' 'Oratio in Aristocratem'. (ADB 41,287/89) (Provenance: The folding prize, 19x28 cm, with the coat of arms of Enkhuizen, has been printed for the greater part; names and the occasion have been added by hand; it reads: 'Ingenio Magnaeque Spei Adolescenti Christiano Cramer Hartman propter insignes in artibus humanioribus progressus praemium hoc litterarum, virtutis et diligentiae testimonium, Gymnasii Enchuisani Curatores donarunt cum in secundam classem transscriberetur, ad diem 6 Septembris 1830'. It is signed by 'R.J. Jungius, S. Muntendam, Duyvensz', and by 'Me Gymnasii Rectore' A. Hirschig. Spoelder does not mention this kind of prize copy, without the coat of arms on the boards, but with the coat of arms on the prize. Christiaan Cramer Hartman was born in Averhorn in 1817. He died in Utrecht in 1886. (See for him 'pondes.nl/detail/i_d.php?inum=14460294') This is about all that is to be found on Christiaan. His diligence and virtue brought him only a public notice of his marriage with Johanna Spruyt in Utrecht in the 'Opregte Haarlemsche Courant' of the 3rd of May 1862, in Utrecht) (Photographs on request)