Sallustius Crispus, Caius

[Opera] Quæ Extant.

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Londini, 1744- J. Brindley 1754 [With] Cornelius Nepos. Excellentium Imperatorum Vitæ. Curtius Rufus (Quintus). [Opera]. 2 vols. Phaedrus. Fabularum Aesopicarum Libri V. Tacitus (Publius Cornelius). Opera exstant Omnia. 4 vols. Engraved titles with the Prince of Wales's feathers. Five works in nine volumes. 12mo. [127 x 74 x 148 mm]. Uniformly bound later in the eighteenth century in red goatskin, the covers with a gilt triple fillet border, smooth spines divided into five panels by gilt pallets, lettered in the second panel and numbered where appropriate in the fourth, the others tooled with a flower head and with various pallets at the foot, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt rolls, bright green endleaves, gilt edges, pink silk markers. (A little rubbed). The individual words are respectively dated 1744, 1744, 1746, 1750 and 1754. There is some occasional browning or spotting. The bindings are probably French and are very handsome. With the Deglatigny booklabel. Brindley commissioned the brilliant but impoverished Irish scholar Usher Gahagan to edit a new edition of the classics, consisting of seventeen authors, and these were published between 1744 and 1760. Brindley advertised them as being "very proper Presents for Young Gentlemen pursuing their Studies either at the Universities or Public Schools of this Kingdom".

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• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)