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Large paper copy of Burmann's collected poems in a fine red morocco binding by the Hoogeveen bindery at Leiden

BURMANNUS Secundus, or the Younger, Petrus.
Poëmatum libri quatuor.

Engraved vignette on title by N. v.d. Meer, full-page engraved portrait of Petrus Burmannus Secundus after a painting by J.M. Quinkhard, engraved by J. Houbraken, with a Latin poem by Janus Grotius underneath.

Leiden, Cornelis van Hoogeveen Junior, 1774. 4to. Contemporary richly gilt red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt in compartments with floral decoration and with green title label lettered in gold, covers elaborately gilt tooled with floral borders and centre piece with pomegranates and flower bouquets, marbled endpapers, gilt gauffered edges (by the VAN HOOGEVEEN BINDERY at Leiden). Engraved vignette on title by N. v.d. Meer, full-page engraved portrait of Petrus Burmannus Secundus after a painting by J.M. Quinkhard, engraved by J. Houbraken, with a Latin poem by Janus Grotius underneath. (28), 502 pp.

Original edition of the collected Latin poems, mainly laudatory verses, by Petrus Burmannus Secundus, or Pieter Burmann the Younger (1713-1778), in a fine binding by the Van Hoogeveen bindery at Leiden. The preliminaries contain laudatory poems by several scholars i.a. Janus Grotius, his pupil Hieronymus Bosch, J.P. Medenbach Wakker, F. Eckholt, A. de Rooy, D.J. van Trappen and Franciscus Petrus Burmannus, followed by Burmann's poems in four books.
Burmann was brought up by his uncle Petrus Burmannus (1668-1741) in Leiden, and afterwards studied law and philology under C.A. Duker and Arnold Drakenborch at Utrecht. In 1735 he was appointed professor of eloquence and history at Franeker, with which the chair of poetry was combined in 1741. In the following year he left Franeker for Amsterdam to become professor of history and philology at the Athenaeum Illustre. He was subsequently professor of poetry (1744), general librarian (1752), and inspector of the gymnasium (1753). In 1777 he retired, and died on 24 June 1778 at his manor house Sandhorst, near Amsterdam. Burmann was a man of extensive learning, and had a greater talent for Latin poetry. His violent disposition, however, involved him in quarrels with contemporaries, notably Professor Saxe at Utrecht and Klotz.

Our copy is bound by the Van Hoogeveen bindery, named after the publisher and bookseller of the present work, Cornelis van Hoogeveen Junior (b. 1714, Leiden). He is said to have given commissions to this bindery for luxury bindings to be given to the Stadholder etc. The bindings from this Leyden Bindery, which was active during the years 1770-1785, were usually of red morocco as is our copy.

Fine, large-paper copy from the library of Charles J. Crawford: his armorial bookplate and the bookplate of the 'Altorp' library pasted on inside front cover; library stamp 'Bibliotheca Heberiana'' on second fly-leaf.

NNBW IV, cols. 358-62; Binding: Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, IIa, pp. 358-64.

Related Subjects: 18th Century Bindings Literature Philology Poetry

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