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1556réf. 049815Paris: Robertum Stephanum Guil. Morelium Henri Estienne; Robert Estienne; Guillaume Morel 1556. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. In a makeshift binding of bonded or simulated leather with added plain endpapers. Very good or better internally with a touch of chipping to a few page edges very minor browning to edges heavier with some discoloration to Greek title page. 54 blank 122 blank. With both blanks at D2 and H6 and two more added from a previous binding. Page edges gilt. Adams A1003. Bound with the Latin version first usually found the other way around. The first edition of Anacreon was published by Henri Estienne his first work as a publisher in 1554 in a Latin edition and then a Greek edition likely printed by Morel with which it is usually bound. Like the 1554 edition this is set in Claude Garamond's "grecs du roi" type and thought to be more likely printed by Morel than Henri's father Robert. Little is known of the Anacreon manuscript Henri ran into it around 1551 and translated it into Latin. It's publication caused a sensation of playful Anacreontic imitations in Europe. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Poetry. Inventory No: 049815. Robertum Stephanum, Guil. Morelium (Henri Estienne; Robert Estienne; Guillaume Morel) hardcover
1692réf. RANALES00twGeorge Gallet 1692. Very Good. Anacreon. Les Oeuvres D'Anacreon et de Sapho Contenant leurs Poesies & les galanteries de l'ancienne Grece. Sapho Sappho. Amsterdam: George Gallet 1692. 398pp. 12mo. Blind embossed vellum with hand titled spine. Book condition: Very good with subtle soiling. Small paper repair to recto of frontispiece. Pages are clean with occasional light foxing and offsetting. Greek and French. George Gallet hardcover
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1893réf. P-12526London: Lawrence & Bullen 1893. Hardcover. Very Good/First Edition. LIMITED TO 110 COPIES bound in Japanese Vellum of which this is #14. The famed odes of the great Greek poet edited with a historical and critical introduction by A.H. Bullen. Tissue interleavings silk ribbon. A splendid copy. Lawrence & Bullen hardcover
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1556réf. 62303Lutetiae i.e. Paris Robert Stephanum i.e. Robert Estienne & Guillaume Morel 1556. Small 8vo. Lovely newer full marbled paper binding with gilt leather title-label to spine Jens E. Hansen Aarhus. Light brownspotting to a few leaves and somne leaves towards the end with inkspotting at outer blank margin. Early neat handwritten marginal annotations throughout. A lovely copy. 54 pp. Scarce second edition of Elie André’s seminal Latin translation of the Anacreontea – the first complete - which itself is a classic in the history of classical literature. It came to directly influence all later readings of Anacreon. In 1554 Henri Estienne II published the seminal editio princeps of Anacreon which is no less than an outright Renaissance sensation causing the “Anacreaonta” to become the most influential “ancient” Greek poetic text during the Renaissance initiating a poetic revolution in Europe. Simultaneously with this editio princeps Henri Estienne published his own Latin translation of it which constitutes the first translation into Latin. Merely a year later in 1555 Elie André extremely important translation of the Anacreaontea appeared in 1555 printed by Thomas Richard. This translation included additional Odes not in the Estienne edition and was thus the first complete Latin translation of the “Anacreontia”. The following year 1556 Robert Estienne II published his first work namely a second edition of the original Greek Anacreontea that Henri Estienne had published in 1554. Silmultaneously Robert Estienne republished Elie André’s Latin translation which was published separately but which is often found together with the 1556 second edition of the Greek Anacreontea. “The first full translation of CA was again in Latin. It was published by the humanist Elie André 1509-1587 from Bordeaux who was friendly with the Parisian circle around the Pléiade. André’s translation appeared less than a year after Estienne’s edition and comprised the Latin translation only without the Greek text. In a way this can be taken as a signal that the Latin tradition was coming into its own. Accordingly André makes some bolder choices in his translation which already shows in his first lines see Aiijr: Cantare nunc Atridas Nunc expetesso Cadmum: Testudo vero nervis Solum refert Amorem …. In classical Latin the verb expetessere is used only by Plautus and it is extremely rare in postclassical Latin. This brings a somewhat odd ring of comedy to the poem. Here and in a number of other places the translator wishes to strike his readers with an unusual turn of phrase or by some sort of amplification. He does not just imitate ‘Anacreon’ but also competes with him as arguably with Estienne’s translation. André’s willingness to adapt the original text shows also in a certain moralistic tendency not otherwise seen in Latin translations. On the one hand he openly and avowedly changes the text when it comes to unequivocal references to homosexuality: in CA 12 10.8-10 τ µευ καλν νεÏων … φÏπασας Βθυλλον; “Why from my sweet dreams … have you snatched away Bathyllus” for instance he replaces Bathyllus with a puella Cur mane somnianti / Ista loquacitate / Mihi eripis puellam…; in CA 29 17.1-2 ΓÏφε µοι Βθυλλον οτω / τν ταÏον ς διδσκω “Paint for me thus Bathyllus my lover just as I instruct you” he simply suppresses the word ταÏον “lover” Mihi pinge sic Bathyllum / . Estienne’s translation is: Meos Bathyllum amores / Ut te docebo pinge. Here André proceeds in a way similar to the original Neo-Latin Anacreontics in which homosexual love simply does not occur. On the other hand André makes generous use of a metatextual element which is less conspicuous than his changes but is even more extensive and significant. He includes a considerable number of passages in quotation marks and thus identifies them as sort of sententiae. In CA 4 32 for instance lines 1-6 describe how the poet wishes to lie down on myrtles drink and have Eros as his wine steward. This description of a specific setting is followed by some more general lines about the brevity of life which André includes in quotation marks lines 7- 10: “Cita nanque currit aetas / Rota ceu voluta currus. / Sed et ossibus solutis / Iaceam cinis necesse est” “For hurried life runs along just like a rolling wheel but I shall soon lie a bit of dust from crumbling bones”. The focus of this quotation technique is on lines concerned with the transitory nature of life the uncertainness of tomorrow and the futility of riches. By marking out such lines as sententiae André distinguishes Anacreon the philosopher from Anacreon the drinker and lover and contributes to a larger discourse about the morality of the poet and his poems. While opinions in antiquity were often critical of Anacreon’s morals ‘Anacreon’s’ large flock of modern imitators was united to defend their hero’s virtue. From Estienne’s preface onwards they usually referred to Plato’s Phaedrus 235c where Socrates calls Anacreon “wise” σοφς in matters concerned with Eros. In the 18th century Anacreon the philosopher could even turn into a key-image of enligthened discourses. André’s identification of sententiae in ‘Anacreon’ prepared for this development and could have had a direct influence on it since his translation was widely read until well into the 18th century. The Latin translations of Estienne and André soon became classics in themselves and were the most successful ones in the early modern period.” Tilg: Neo-Latin Anacreontic Poetry. Its Shapes and Its Significance 214. Pp. 177-78. Brunet: I:250; Renouard: I:161. hardcover
1843réf. 680781843. Florentiae : apud Guillelmum Piatti 1843 4° XVI 179 pp.; 11 pp. feiner Pappband. First Edition! Bilingual Edition - Greek text with Latin version opposite. Anacreon c. 575 - c. 495 BC was a Greek lyric poet notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ancient Ionic dialect. Like all early lyric poetry it was composed to be sung or recited to the accompaniment of music usually the lyre. Anacreon's poetry touched on universal themes of love infatuation disappointment revelry parties festivals and the observations of everyday people and life Sappho c. 630 - c. 570 BC was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.a Sappho is known for her lyric poetry written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess". Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost and what is extant has mostly survived in fragmentary form; only the Ode to Aphrodite is certainly complete. As well as lyric poetry ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Three epigrams formerly attributed to Sappho are extant but these are actually Hellenistic imitations of Sappho's style. unknown
réf. 159707Roma In Aedibus Athenaei 1958. XLIII219 p. Cloth. 22 cm Introduction text translation 'studio sui frammenti papiracei'In NP hardcover
1736réf. 31357AB1736. In Venezia Apresso Francesco Piacentini 1736. 4°. 3 Bl. 208 S. Mit 1 Portät. Pergamentband der Zeit. Die Übersetzer waren: Barnes Joshua; Corsini Bartolomeo; Marchetti Alessandro; Regnier de Marais François Séraphin und Salvini Anton Maria. Das Papier etwas stockfleckig. Der Einbandbzug fleckig und leicht verzogen. unknown
1774réf. 60357Paris Le Boucher 1773 & 1774 4to 228 x 156 mm. Bound in a very beautiful a bit later light brown full grained morrocoo binding with five raised bands richly gilt spines gilt lines to boards inner gilt dentelles and gilt capitals. All edges gilt. Binding by 'Sture Falks Bogbinderi' Lund Sweden. Housed in a slipcase. Ex-libris to pasted down front end-paper Maurice B. Worms and to front free end-paper Per Erik & Ludmilla Lindahl. A very nice and clean copy. 4 IV 280 XVI 104 pp. 2 frontispieces 12 headers and 13 tailpieces by Eisen engraved by Massard and Duclos. First edition of Moutonnet's translation of Anacreon illustrated by Duclos after Eisen - widely considered to be "One of the most charmingly illustrated books of the eighteenth century" Salomons. Sander 17 Cohen 79: "l'un des livres les plus élégamment illustrés du XVIIIe siècleFürstenberg 92: "The Anakreon from 1773 is on the same level as the illustrations for 'Le Temple de Gnide' from 1772 and must also be counted among the most beautiful books of the century." hardcover
1554réf. 60114Lutetiae i.e. Paris Guillaume Morel for Henri Estienne II 1554. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties to boards. Remains of contemporary paper labels to spine and traces of autor in ink in contemporary hand also to spine.A few smaller worm tracts to boards and a bit of spotting but overall very nice. A large spot to title-page presumably erased ink from the removal of an old owner's name. The spot is in the blank margin close to the printer's device but not touching it. Apert from that internally very nice with only light occasional damp staining or browning. Old ink note in Greek characters to front free end-paper and a small note referring also to "Lyra" on A1r. A very nice copy with large margins. Woodcut printer's device to title-page woodcut headpiece and opening initial. Magnificently printed in all three sizes of the famous "grecs du roi"-type. 8 110 pp. Rare first edition of the groundbreaking Anacreon-volume by H. Estienne being the milestone publication that not only constitutes the first book by the brilliant Henri Estienne II but also the extremely influential editio princeps of the Anacreontea. Furthermore this groundbreaking publication contains Sappho’s now immortal Aphrodite-hymn being the very first of any of Sappho’s poems to appear in print here for the second time in print as well as the magnificent “Midnight poem” fragment 168B establishing for the first time since antiquity the gathering together of poems by Sappho: “A momentous point in her transmission. Yet it is ironic that the first collection of a fragmentary Greek poet known and admired beyond any other today should have appeared as a mere appendix to a book dedicated to another author entirely without even her name on the title-page.” Cambridge Companion to Sappho p. 251. The impact that Sappho - “mother of all women poets” - would eventually come to have upon modern poetry and society was not yet known to Estienne and his contemporaries for whom she was more or less unknown. Estienne however recognized the value of the poems of hers that he had encountered and with the publication of them in the present volume began a tradition that would eventually cause her to become arguably the most celebrated Greek poet of all time. “Estienne’s edition of Anacreon’s poetry was enthusiastically received by the Pléiade poets which considerably boosted Sappho’s influence on western European literature”. van Dijk: I Have Heard about You p. 37. This beautifully printed slim volume constitutes an outright Renaissance sensation. “The “Anacreaonta” became the most influential “ancient” Greek poetic text during the Renaissance and Estienne’s “editio princeps” virtually caused a poetic revolution not only in France but also in Italy and Germany – where this influence culminated in the 18th century with the Anacreontic Poets “Die Anakreontiker”.” Schreiber 139. Henri Estienne II – “in many ways the greatest member of the Estienne dynasty and most certainly its most prolific scholar” Schreiber - had travelled extensively through Italy the Low Countries and England in search of Greek manuscripts. It is from one of these that he had printed possibly by Guillaume Morel his first book this editio princeps of the Anacreaontea which is thus also the first book to bear his imprint. Henri Estienne along with his contemporaries believed the work to contain the ancient Greek lyrics of the poet Anakreon 6th century BC whose poems are not extant except for some short fragments. In fact the poems contained in this volume constitute the Anacreontea which is a collection of Greek lyric poems written in the style and imitation of Anacreon at various dates. “Henri’s publication of these “ancient” Greek lyrics caused an immediate literary sensation in France and was celebrated and immortalized by Ronsard in an oft-quoted passage of his “Odes”.” Schreiber. Henri Estienne started out his publishing career with this magnificent publication that catapulted him into fame and he went on to become one of the most influential literary and scholarly figures of the second half of the 16th century in Europe; he dominated Renaissance scholarship with his magnificent publications and has arguably not been superseded by any publisher since. The young Henri Estienne had discovered the present poems in Louvain in a manuscript owned by an Englishman named John Clements who was a friend of Thomas More. Their publication “was a sensation of the first class and the starting-point for a new branch of modern literature” R. Pfeiffer: History of Classical Scholarship” p. 109. “This first edition was greeted with tremendous enthusiasm by the members of the Pléiade who like everyone else believed the poems genuine and each of whom immediately translated or imitated some of the “Anacreontea”.” Schreiber. The poems may not have been “genuine” Anacreon-poems but the influence that the publication of them came to exercise was no less profound than had they been; the mark they have left of modern literature is difficult to compare to anything else. The printing of the original Greek text in all three sizes of the magnificent “grecs du roi”-type is followed by the first Latin translation of the poems done by Estienne himself and by Estienne’s own commentary. The text of this editio princeps has been followed by almost every subsequent editor and today the name Anacreon cannot be mentioned without thinking of Estienne. After the Anacreon-poems themselves are two leaves containing first poems by Alkaios and second the two famous poems by Sappho: The Ode to Aphrodite fragment 1 and the Midnight Poem fragment 168B also known as “The Moon Sets” constituting a momentous point in the Sappho-transmission namely the first time since antiquity that anyone had gathered together poems by her. Soon after more Sappho-collections would appear causing her to eventually become the most admired Greek poet. “In a recent article R. Aulotte… shows how Sappho’s influence on the poets dates from the time when Henri Estienne published the odes then known along with his famous edition of Anacreon. His first edition published in 1554 contained the “Ode to Aphrodite” and the fragment “The Moon has Set”.” Mary Morrison: Henri Estienne and Sappho in: Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance T.24 N.2 1962 p. 388. "From time immemorial women poets have had only one norm one touchstone: Sappho the legendary woman poet who lived on the island of Lesbos in the Aegean sea in the 6th century BC. … The Sappho figure is the peg on which views of female poetic genious and female sexuality have been hung century after century.” Suzanne van Dijk: I Have Heard about You… p. 35 . Dibdin I: 258 “A beautiful and rare edition”; Schreiber: 139; Renouard: 115. hardcover
1802réf. 55219London Bulmer et Soc. apud White et Miller 1802. 8vo. Contemp. full morocco. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. Inside gilt borders. Edges gilt. Edges with light wear. 4130 pp. Many fine executed engraved vignettes and endpieces. Finely printed with Greek letters on good paper. The first leaves with light browning further a few minor brownspots. With engraved bookplate of Hen. J. Blakeney and his written name. unknown
1704réf. 61700à Paris: Chez Pierre Ribou 1704. Fine. Chez Pierre Ribou à Paris 1704 9.50 x 16.50 cm relié First edition of De la Fosse's translation. Greek text with facing translation. A medallion portrait of Anacreon at the frontispiece. Catalogue at the end. Contemporary full polished brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Head torn with losses to joints. Upper joint split at tail. 4 corners bumped. Preface on the work and various translations of the odes. Each ode is followed by translator's notes. Following the 55 odes Poems by M.D.L.F. then Discourse delivered in Florence to determine which are the most beautiful eyes blue or black. Chez Pierre Ribou hardcover
1773réf. 38330à Paphos & se trouve à Paris: Chez Le Boucher 1773. Fine. Chez Le Boucher à Paphos & se trouve à Paris 1773 14 x 22.20 cm relié First edition of this translation by Moutonnet de Clairfonds and first issue of the illustration which comprises a frontispiece 12 headpieces and 13 tailpieces by Eisen engraved by Massard and Duclos. Title page in red and black. Full red morocco binding late 19th century signed Pickering. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Wide inner decorative border. Edges gilt. Small brown stains on upper cover. Despite the minor defects noted a very fine copy. Cohen rightly cites this work as ""one of the most elegantly illustrated books of the 18th century""; Eisen's contribution is indeed delicate and inspired and the headpiece engravings are superbly executed. Chez Le Boucher hardcover
1801réf. C90454Glasgow: Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis Ex Typis Jacobi Mundell Excuderant J. Et J. Scrymgeour. 1801. 1st. And Only Ed. . Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. 1st. And Only Ed. 12mo c. 4 x 7 inches. pp 106. Full paneled calf spine lettered in gilt and blind-stamped; gilt extremities rubbed; gilt inner dentelles. Bookplate on front pastedown of General Sir Edward Harris Greathed KCB 1812-1881 Indian Army officer who commanded the Second Lucknow Relief force during the Indian Mutiny in 1857. A few marks to covers short sections at bottom of joints split. Internally very tight and clean apart from slight well scattered foxing to prelims. VG. Rare: only 5 copies in WorldCat James Mundell Glasgow University printer had died in 1800. He was succeeded by James and John Scrymgeour. Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis, Ex Typis Jacobi Mundell, Excuderant J. Et J. Scrymgeour. hardcover
1768réf. 1018H32London: J. Ridley 1768 . Leather. Good. 6.5" by 4". None. The very scarce first edition of Edward Burnaby Greene"s Anacreon and Sappho offering English lyric translations with notes and classical commentary. In a contemporary full calf binding. The first edition of this anthology of Anacreon and Sappho edited by Edward Burnaby Greene. The volume contains English versions of the odes of Anacreon and Sappho with observations on their lives and writings explanatory notes Greek textual remarks and additional pieces from ancient authors. Anacreon the Greek lyric poet traditionally associated with love wine and convivial verse is here paired with Sappho whose surviving poetry and fragments remain one of the defining models of the Greek lyric. An appealing 18th century English rendering of Anacreon and Sappho. ESTC No.: T85629. In a contemporary full calf binding. Externally sound. Front joint cracked with lifting to calf at upper extremities. Head of backstrip lifting. Slight loss to spine ends. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight rubbing to boards with the odd light mark; one or two spots of discolouration. Front paste down fully detached but present loosely inserted. Paper residue to front down where previous owner's bookplate has been removed. Front hinge strained with cords exposed but holding. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean if slightly age toned. The odd spot and handling mark heavier to the endpapers and title page. Good J. Ridley hardcover
1802réf. 1007Y35London: J. White and G. Miller 1802. Leather. Good. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A morocco-bound edition of the odes of Anacreon edited by English cleric and writer Edward Forster. With lovely engraved vignettes. An early 19th-century edition of The Odes of Anacreon amended according to the text of Barnes in the Greek text. Bound in full straight-grain morocco with marbled endpapers.With elegant engraved vignettes throughout.Few of Anacreon"s works survive but those that do focus on wine love and the overall pleasures of the legendary Roman symposium. Anacreon used various techniques in his writings including self-deprecation and irony. Edited by Edward Forster 17691828 an English cleric miscellany writer and Fellow of the Royal Society. Bound in full straight-grain morocco with marbled endpapers. Externally quite rubbed to the extremities. Short cracks to the tail of the joints. Internally firmly bound. Pages are marginally toned but generally clean with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Good J. White and G. Miller hardcover
1903réf. 1196P082New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press 1903. 1st Edition Thus . Hardback. Printed pages: x 166. Very Good Minus. 4.75 x 7.5 inches 11.5 x 19 cm. Quarter leather binding with paper-covered boards gilt emblem to front board. Top page edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Fading and rubbing to spine. Wear to ends of spine and lower corners of boards. Light marking to boards. A couple of spots of foxing to endpapers. Good solid binding. Very clean text throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. A fine production from the Knickerbocker Press. Scarce. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 4.75 x 7.5 inches 11.5 x 19 cm. G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press hardcover
1923réf. 1235E076London: The Nonesuch Press 1923. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 52. Near Fine/Good. 5.5 x 9.5 inches 14 x 24 cm. Dust jacket: Gold paper jacket with wear and loss to edges. Rubbing to front cover. Overall jacket condition is Good. Book: Limited edition number 637 of 725 copies. Quarter parchment with gold paper covered boards. Page edges untrimmed. Very slight tanning to edges of pastedown endpapers. A few spots of foxing to page edges otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Engraved title page headpiece tailpiece and four plates all with tissue guards. One tissue guard has been bound in at an angle. An outstanding example. Overall book condition is Near Fine. Size: 5.5 x 9.5 inches 14 x 24 cm. The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1923réf. 1235E075London: The Nonesuch Press 1923. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 52. Good. 5.5 x 9.5 inches 14 x 24 cm. Limited edition number 520 of 725 copies. Lacking jacket. Quarter parchment with gold paper covered boards. Page edges untrimmed. Heavy rubbing to boards foxing to page edges and front free endpaper. Occasional spotting to the text. Slight residue from previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and slight offsetting to front free endpaper. Engraved title page headpiece tailpiece and four plates all with tissue guards. Overall condition is Good. Size: 5.5 x 9.5 inches 14 x 24 cm. The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1833réf. 815A11London: Sherwdood Gilbert and Piper 1833. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". None . The first edition of the classical odes of Anacreon edited by James Usher a bright pocket sized edition. Anacreon was a Greek lyric poet known for his drinking songs and erotic poems. The present pocket sized volume is the first edition of his odes rendered to English and edited by James Usher a scarce copy. The odes are admired for their elegance and genuine simplicity mostly concerned with themes of love infatuation revelry and aspects of every-day life. Rebound a full cloth binding with titles in gilt to spine. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only minor bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities light soiling to boards and spine. Internally firmly bound. Odd minor spotting to occasional leaf otherwise pages clean throughout with a touch of age toning as usual with the type of paper used. Very Good Indeed Sherwdood, Gilbert and Piper hardcover
réf. 6827660Harvard University Press . Hardback. New. pp. 560 Index Harvard University Press hardcover
1768réf. 26070London:: J. Ridley. Full leather binding. 12mo xxxii 287pp.contemporary errata page. Full leather with raised bands to spine. Gilt titles to red spine label. Gilt dentelles. Two armourial bookplates: firstly that of Robert Shafto d.1780 of Benwell in Northumberland and secondly that of his son-in-law William Adair. Robert Shafto was a distant cousin of the Robert Shafto MP 1732-1797 of whom the folk song ' Bobby Shafto' is believed to refer. However some sources Thomas & George Allan in Tyneside Songs and Readings 1891 believe Robert Shafto 1760–1781 of Benwell was the inspiration - he was the son of the owner of this book. Either way the Shafto family with their strong Northumberland and Co. Durham connections make this volume of particular interest to those with interest in NE England. Most of the prelim is taken up with The Classic poem. The text is in English. Front hinge split and held only by one cord rear hinge tender. Though the binding is rather fragile the gatherings remain tightly bound and square. Pages show some age toning to the very edges more so towards the beginning and end of the text block. Starting to crack vertically down the middle of the spine. Prelims are unevenly tanned. Rubbed to edges with the tips of the board showing to two corners. Some slight scuffing to the surface of the leather. Fair copy . Hardback. 1768. J. Ridley hardcover
