Search Results: corpus poetarum latinorum by walker william sidney

Henry G. Bohn. Fair with no dust jacket. 1849. Hardcover. Inner hinges cracked. Book has been rebound in red cloht with gilt lettering to spine. Some rubbing and fading to boards. Tears to spine ends. Edgewear to extremities. Patterned paper edges Ffep detached with scholar's name in ink (D. O. Robson) & Pp 819 -830 loose but present. Contents shaken. Else Good. ; 1209 pages; Very heavy. .

Londini [London]: apud C. Knight & Co., 1839. 8vo. pp. [vii], [i], 1209, [iii], with final errata leaf. Slight age browning, occasional marginal foxing or dust-soiling, a bit heavier to last few leaves. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked with onlaid original spine, marbled endpapers, double gilt ruled, gilt-lettered morocco label, a.e.r., a little loss to onlaid spine. The odd marginal annotation; 20th-century ownership inscription to fly. An elegantly bound copy of this important collection, first published in 1848, of the writings of major Latin poets, including Catullus, Tibullus, Virgil, Persius and Claudianus, and a 'Supplementum in Virgilium' with his 'Ciris', 'Catalecta' and 'Copa'. The author, William Sidney Walker (1795-1846), was professor of Greek at Trinity College, Cambridge, and an important classicist, as well as a Shakespearean critic.

Londini : Henry G. Bohn, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn copy bound in half vellum over marble boards with gilt-blocked leather label to the spine and gilt-blocked decoration. Physical description; vi, 1209 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Printed two columns to a page. Contents; Catullus -- Lucretius -- Virgilius -- Tibullus -- Propertius -- Ovidius -- Horatius -- Phaedrus -- Lucanus -- Persius -- Juvenalis -- Martialis -- Sulpicia -- Statius -- Silius Stalicus -- Valerius Flaccus -- Calpurnius Siculus --Ausonius -- Claudianus -- Supplementum in Virgilium. Subjects; Latin poetry. Latin poetry � Collections. Genre; Poems - Latin - 19th century.