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Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.

London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.

12mo, pp. [xiv], 179, [11], with an engraved frontispiece medallion portrait by Van der Gucht; woodcut vignette to title-page, woodcut royal coat of arms to privilege leaf, woodcut headpieces and initials; title-page printed in red and black; a fine copy in contemporary red morocco, covers gilt with a border of three fillets, central floriate lozenge, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, gilt edges, front joint rubbed; armorial bookplate of William Clavering-Cowper, Earl Cowper (1709–1764).

£300

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First Maittaire edition. The French-born classical scholar Michel Maittaire (1668–1741) studied at Westminster, and then under Robert South at Christ Church, Oxford. He is best known for his Annales Typographici and the series of duodecimo classics that he published with Tonson and Watts from 1713 to 1719. The year 1713 alone saw the publication of his editions of Paterculus, Justinus, Lucretius, Phaedrus, Sallust, and Terence.

‘The fame of Mr. John Watts for excellently good printing will endure as long as any public library shall exist. The duodecimo editions of Maittaire’s Classicks “ex officina lacobi Tonson et lohannis Watts” would alone have been sufficient to have immortalized his memory, both for correctness and neatness’ (Nichols, Literary Anecdotes I, 292).

ESTC T111402.

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