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Red morocco, gilt, by Stoakley, Cambridge, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; lettered on upper cover, "SIGNED COPIES / OF / ADDRESS / TO / PROF. J.E.B. MAYOR / JAN. 28, 1905". Spine slightly darkened; loosely inserted J.E. Sandys's single-sheet printed proposal - "It is proposed to present to Professor MAYOR, on his 80th birthday, a Latin address of congratulation on the part of Members of the University, who are directly interested in the studies to which he has devoted himself . . ." 155 copies of the address (Latin texts, each with three integral blanks; sometime folded) are subscribed by 174 signatories, the flower of late 19th-century scholarship at Cambridge - many with autograph additions (communicating notes, giving colleges, supplying post-nominals). John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825-1910) was admitted a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, in 1849, and apart from the years 1849-53, when he taught at Marlborough, stayed at St John's his entire working life. He served as University Librarian, 1864-7, and Kennedy Professor of Latin, 1872-1910; as college President, 1902-10; and as President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1862-3, 1868-9, of the Philological Society, 1878-81, and the Vegetarian Society, 1884-1910. "In 1905, on his eightieth birthday, a Latin address of congratulation written by Professor J.S. Reid and signed by 173 [sic] scholars was presented to him at a meeting held in the combination room of St John's, under the presidency of Sir Richard Jebb" (ODNB). "Nomen ergo tuum," declared Reid, "inter clarissimos Cantabrigienses, Bentleium Marklandum Porsonum Munronem, et uiget et uigebit . . ." Among those subscribing are not just other clarissimi of Mayor's contemporaries, but also generations of the Cambridge classical establishment, from college fellows and university professors nationwide to schoolmasters and headmasters, clergy, librarians and independent researchers, so many of whom added, by their editions and translations, to the texts and textures of late 19th-century scholarship. The signatories include T. CLIFFORD ALLBUTT (Regius Professor of Physic); W.E. BARNES ("Gulielmus Emery Barnes . . . Professor Hulseianus"); J.F. BETHUNE-BAKER (Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity); CECIL BENDALL (Professor of Sanskrit); A.A. BEVAN (Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic); GEORGE BRIMLEY BOWES (partner at Macmillan & Bowes, booksellers); W.P. BROOKE (schoolmaster, father of the poet Rupert); J.B. BURY (Regius Professor of Modern History); H. MONTAGU BUTLER (Master of Trinity); F.H. CHASE (President of Queens' and Norrisian Professor of Divinity); E.C. CLARK (Regius Professor of Civil Law); ARTHUR BERNARD COOK (Professor of Greek, Bedford College, London); F.M. CORNFORD (Fellow of Trinity); ISRAEL DAVIS (proprietor of The Jewish Chronicle); STUART A. DONALDSON ("Coll. S. Mariae Magdalenae Praefectus"); J.G. FRAZER (Fellow of Trinity); H.M. GWATKIN (Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History); FRIEDRICH BARON VON HÜGEL (freelance theologian); MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES (Fellow of King's); R.C. JEBB (Regius Professor of Greek: overseeing the presentation to the honorand); F. JENKINSON ("Franciscus Jenkinson": University Librarian); A.F. KIRKPATRICK (Master of Selwyn); WALTER LEAF (banker and freelance scholar); EIRIKR MAGNÚSSON (Under Librarian, University Library); ARTHUR J. MASON (Master of Pembroke); JOS. B. MAYOR ("Josephus B. Mayor", former Professor of Classics, King's College, London; the honorand's younger brother); EDW. HENR. PEROWNE ("Coll. Corp. Chr. et B. M. V. Praefectus"); J.S. REID (Professor of Ancient History; to whom the address is attributed, and to whom by name many of the signatories return their copies); J.E. SANDYS (Public Orator and Fellow of St John's: who circulated the proposal, and would write the honorand's DNB entry); C.E. SAYLE (librarian); WALTER W. SKEAT (Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon). Full list of signatories on request. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 30M100405
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