EPIGRAMMATA E PURIORIBUS GRAECAE ANTHOLOGIAE FONTIBUS HAUSIT
by GREEK ANTHOLOGY
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Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
1825. SCHOOL PRIZE BINDING 1834 [GREEK ANTHOLOGY] EDWARDS, John. EPIGRAMMATA E PURIORIBUS GRAECAE ANTHOLOGIAE FONTIBUS HAUSIT; annotationibus Jacobsii, De Bosch, et aliorum instruxit: suas subinde notulas et tabulam scriptorum chronologicam adjunxit Joannes Edwards, AM. Londini: Impensis Geo. D. Whittaker, 1825. Latin title-page and preface, Greek text, notes by Friedrich Jacobs and Hieronymus de Bosch in Latin. Octavo. 21 x 12.5 cm. [i-iv, 2, v]-xii, 375 pp. School prize binding awarded by Winchester College in 1834: full calf with gilt decoration and a label in compartments on spine, gilt armorial stamp to upper board, marbled endpapers, with a large Winchester College prize plate dated 1834 to the front pastedown, a.e.g. The first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos sponsored the prize: his name appears on the prize plate, his arms on the upper board, and the letter B beneath a duke's coronet at the head of the spine. The leather is crazed and abraded in places, and the lower board is stained. The binding shows general edgewear but is sound. Internally clean and very good overall.
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- Bookseller
- Boston Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89668
- Title
- EPIGRAMMATA E PURIORIBUS GRAECAE ANTHOLOGIAE FONTIBUS HAUSIT
- Author
- GREEK ANTHOLOGY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1825
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Established in 1979, Boston Book Company offers rare and interesting books in a broad range of subjects. Our areas of particular expertise: Japanese artist books of all eras, East Asian art in general, photographica, local history, women's books, English and American literature..
We are always eager to learn something new.... Every collector brings a novel approach to our shared love of books.
Welcome!
Helen Kelly
Charles Vilnis
David Fredette
James Desrosiers
Elizabeth Fragala
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Calf
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- Plate
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