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£ 250.00
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Juvenal & Flaccus:
D. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae. Tabulis Aeneis Illustravit, et Notas Variorum Selectas, Suasque Addidit G.S. [ie William Sandby]
Imprint: Cantabrigiae [Cambridge] prostant venales Londini, apud Gul. Sandby [...]; Cantabrigiæ, apud G. Thur, 1763
Binding:
Hardback
8vo. pp. [xii], 229, [i] + 14 engraved plates; lacks engraved frontispiece. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt; upper joint, headcaps and corners skilfully renewed and tooling made good.
'A very neat and well printed edition' (the printer being Joseph Bentham at the Cambridge University Press, as the colophon reveals). Five years later Sandby sold his bookselling business to a naval officer on half pay, one John McMurray, the founder of the publishing house which still bears his name. See, for example, Zachs, W.: The First John Murray (1998)., Dibdin II, 156.
Stock number:6498.
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