IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS
STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.
Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit et accuravit Joannes Carey].
London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin, J. Booker, Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, G. & W. B. Whittaker, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Browne, T. Cadell, E. Edwards, and Simpkin & Marshall, [15 October] 1822.
12mo, pp. [4], 421, [3 (blank, ads)]; 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; slightly bumped at extremities, spine very lightly darkened.
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Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit et accuravit Joannes Carey].
An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s printed boards, of the ‘Regent’s Classics’ pocket edition of Statius.
The ‘Regent’s Classics’, a uniform series of pocket-format editions of classical authors edited by the Irish Classicist John Carey (1756–1826) and published by a large consortium of London booksellers, first printed the works of Statius in 1812. This second edition, at 7s, was among the most expensive books in the series.
