Gregory (Saint of Nazanzius). Sancti gregorii nazianzeni in julianum invectivae duae. Cum Scholis Graecis nunc primum editis, edited by Richard Montagu. Small 4to, pp.[viii], 172 + [80], Etonae, [M.Bradwood for] John Norton, Regius Typographus, 1610.
Title with woodcut head-piece and ornament, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, browned, bound in the nineteenth-century in full blind-stamped calf, spine newly backed in compartments, morocco label titled in gilt, grey marbled endpapers. A very attractive copy.
(STC 12346) One of the earliest works to be printed at Eton College. Montagu's Greek edition of Gregory of Nazianzus' two discourses against Julian, dedicated to Archbishop Bancroft, was produced on the press of Sir Henry Saville (1549-1622), biblical translator (involved the production of the Authorized Version) and then Provost of the College. At Sir Henry Savile's death the types and machinery were sent to Oxford University Press. The Greek types are based on those of the Estiennes of Paris. Probably the most famous work of the press is its Greek edition of The Works of St John Chrysostom (8 vols, 1613).
