PLINY FOR THE POCKET
PLINY the Younger.
Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae supersunt; omnia. Ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa …
Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.
Three vols, 12mo, pp. [iv], 275, [1]; [iv], 277–501, [1]; [iv], [503]–633, [25], with general title-pages in vols I and II (see below), a divisional title in each volume, and two leaves of publishers’ advertisements at the end of volume III; a fine copy in contemporary red morocco, covers gilt with a border of gilt rolls and rules, spine gilt in five compartments, brown morocco labels; armorial bookplates of John Peachey, dated 1782, nineteenth-century booklabel of Westdean Library.
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Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae supersunt; omnia. Ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa …
A handsome Foulis Press pocket Pliny. The first two volumes comprise the ten books of Pliny’s Epistulae (particularly important for their description of the eruption of Vesuvius), the third his Panegyric to Trajan: ‘clearly it was intended that sections Z to the end should comprise a third volume, but no copy has been seen with a separately-bound Vol. III, nor one with a Vol. III title-page’ (Gaskell). Pace Gaskell, apart from ours, there is another copy bound in three volumes at the Bodleian, albeit without the advertisement leaves found here.
Provenance: 1. John Peachey, second Baron Selsey (1749–1816), armorial bookplate; 2. his son Henry John Peachey, third Baron (Westdean Library label)
ESTC T190303; Gaskell 208.
