Advanced search
image image

SCOTTISH PRINTING, SCANDINAVIAN BINDING

Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus. Ex editione Petri Burmanni fideliter expressa.

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.

8vo in fours, pp. 251, [1]; a fine copy in contemporary Scandinavian calf, covers with roll-tooled border in zwischgold, spine gilt (later in the eighteenth-century) in six compartments, red stained label panel lettered directly, marbled endpapers, manuscript shelfmarks.

£425

Approximately:
US $575  €498

Add to basket Make an enquiry

Added to your basket:
Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus. Ex editione Petri Burmanni fideliter expressa.

Checkout now

First and only Foulis Press edition, unusually found here in a contemporary Scandinavian binding, evidence of the high esteem in which these products of the Glasgow enlightenment were held across Europe.

ESTC T93523; Gaskell 245.

You may also be interested in...

JUST FRIENDS? [DICKSON, William, photographer.]

Ambrotype of two young men holding hands.

A very attractive ambrotype double portrait showing two seated young men holding hands, with subtle hand-tinting to their faces and hands.

Read more

BOUND FOR THE COMTE DE CALENBERG JUVENAL, Decimus Junius, and Aulus Persius FLACCUS.

Satyrae.

First Brindley edition, edited by the Irish classical scholar Usher Gahagan (d. 1749). John Brindley began to publish his series of well-printed duodecimo classics in 1744, for which Gahagan edited eleven works before his arrest and conviction for high treason, having become embroiled with a childhood friend in a scheme to file down coins for gold. He was executed at Tyburn on 20 February 1749.

Read more