Delphin Classics,

Delphin Classics, an edition of the Greek and Roman classics (64 quarto volumes, 1674-1730) prepared by thirty-nine of the best scholars of the time, under the editorship, originally, of Bossuet and Huet, tutors to the dauphin, son of Louis XIV. The title-pages bear the words, 'In usum Serenissimi Delphini,' hence the name. Editions in octavo of particular authors, as Virgil and Horace, were often reprinted in England. The Delphin Classics are now esteemed of little value.