A Trinity Double
PLINY the Younger.
Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae supersunt; omnia. Ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa … Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.
4to, pp. [iv], 276, [iv], 277–348, [8 (index)], with a divisional title-page to the Epistolae (bound here before the general title); a fine copy in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments (possibly a publisher’s binding – see Gaskell, ‘Early Work’, The Library fifth series VII), covers a little rubbed and scraped; armorial bookplate of John Wilson, fellow & bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge, pasted over the attractive bookpile bookplate of William Cooper, Archdeacon of York, dated 1778.
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Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae supersunt; omnia. Ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa …
A handsome quarto Pliny from the Foulis press, published in the same year as the three-volume duodecimo.
Provenance: 1. William Cooper (1736–86), who matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1754, and proceeded BA, MA and eventually DD in 1773. 2. John Wilson (d. 1791), senior fellow and bursar of Trinity, and a JP for Kendal.
ESTC T133678; Gaskell 207.