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Author:
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Thucydidis
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Title:
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De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo, 2 Vols.
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Description:
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Book is Very Good green cloth binding, First Thus,
Ricardum Priestley, Londini, 1835. A rebound two volume set with the Fort Augustus, Scotland, monastic library bookplate. These copies look so clean and neat that I would have to suspect that somehow only the title pages of each volume truly date from 1835. Perhaps the original copies became so used that the rebinder decided to use sheets from a later printing. Mind you, if the page edges were trimmed during a re-bind, and the paper was acid-free and kept in a dry library all thart time, they could just possibly still be this clean. Anyway, a very good working set whatever the date, and certainly has a nice provenance with the Fort Augustus bookplate. The sale of the Abbey collection was the greatest booksale Scotland has seen for a long time. Apart from the title pages, there is no foxing or yellowing anywhere in the text block. The books take the form of a greek text at the top of each page with latin annotations and notes underneath. The engraved frontis of vol I is missing, having declared its presence by offsetting a picture of a bust faintly onto the title page. Volume II has a tape repair on the inner hinge, which has been done very inexpertly with brown paper tape. Apart from that, this is a very clean and tidy and smart looking pair of volumes, with high quality paper and clean tight green cloth cases, with bright gilt lettering on the spines. 920pp including index, 460pp each vol.
Size 8vo keywords: Classics classical texts latin greek
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