Author: GREEK ANTHOLOGY
Title: Epigrammata E Purioribus Graecae Anthologiae Fontibus Hausit
Description: 1825. SCHOOL PRIZE BINDING 1834 [GREEK ANTHOLOGY] EDWARDS, John. EPIGRAMMATA E PURIORIBUS GRAECAE ANTHOLOGIAE FONTIBUS HAUSIT; annotationibus Jacobsii, De Bosch, et aliorum instruxit: suas subinde notulas et tabulam scriptorum chronologicam adjunxit Joannes Edwards, AM. Londini: Impensis Geo. D. Whittaker, 1825. Latin title-page and preface, Greek text, notes by Friedrich Jacobs and Hieronymus de Bosch in Latin. Octavo. 21 x 12.5 cm. [i-iv, 2, v]-xii, 375 pp. School prize binding awarded by Winchester College in 1834: full calf with gilt decoration and a label in compartments on spine, gilt armorial stamp to upper board, marbled endpapers, with a large Winchester College prize plate dated 1834 to the front pastedown, a.e.g. The first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos sponsored the prize: his name appears on the prize plate, his arms on the upper board, and the letter B beneath a duke's coronet at the head of the spine. The leather is crazed and abraded in places, and the lower board is stained. The binding shows general edgewear but is sound. Internally clean and very good overall. .

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