Epistolarum - Libri X

Epistolarum - Libri X

£150
Publisher

M. Ritchie and J. Sammells

Author

Plinii, C. (Gaius Plinius Caeacilius Secondus), Pliny; Homer, Henry (Ed)

Reference

916

[6], 484pp, slightly later full morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, bands bordered by single gilt rules, covers with single fillet border, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., with stormont pattern marbled endpapers.

Spine faded, rubbed to extremities especially outer joints and spine ends, corners bumped. Internally quite bright and clean.

Ex-library, but no evidence of this.

Moss II:497, "very elegant and accurate edition"; Schweiger:810; Dibdin II:333, "this is one of the most beautiful and correct editions of the text of Pliny that has ever appeared"

Period

12mo

Year

Good

Binding

Full Morocco

Book Type

Ex-Library

Publish Place

Londini (London)

Publish Year

1790

Edition

Reprint

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