IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS
SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.
Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione accurati [cover: Recensuit et accuravit Joannes Carey].
London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin, J. Booker, Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, G. & W. Whittaker, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Co., T. Cadell, E. Edwards, and Simpkin & Marshall, [15 March] 1824.
12mo, pp. [4], 344; with half-title, wood-engraved Prince of Wales’s feathers ornament to half-title, wood-engraved vignette to title; a few creased corners, but a very good copy; uncut and largely unopened in publisher’s printed boards, with wood-engraved feathers ornament to front board, advertisements to rear board, both boards printed within Greek-key border; a little bumped at extremities with crack to lower corner of front board, a few slight spots.
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Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione accurati [cover: Recensuit et accuravit Joannes Carey].
First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’ edition of Silius Italicus’s epic poem on the Second Punic War, an attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s printed boards.
The ‘Regent’s Classics’ was a uniform series of pocket-format editions of classical authors edited by the Irish Classicist John Carey (1756–1826), published by a large consortium of London booksellers. The use of the Prince Regent’s name and badge in marketing the books is likely, at least in part, an allusion to the better-known Delphin Classics, initially produced for the Grand Dauphin in the 1670s.
