Author: PETRONIUS:
Title: The Satyrical Works of Titus Petronius Arbiter, In Prose and Verse. In Three Parts. Together with his Life and Character, Written by Mons. St. Evremont; and A Key to the Satyr, by a Person of Quality. Made English by Mr. Wilson, Mr. Burnaby, Mr. Blount, Mr. Tho. Ayloff, and several others. And adorn'd with Cuts. To which is added, The Charms of Liberty; a Poem, by the late Duke of D------- [Devonshire].
Description: London, Printed for Sam. Briscoe, and are to be Sold by B. Bragge, at the Raven in Pater-noster-r0w. 1708. 8vo, 189 x 114 mms., pp. [xviii], xvi, [xiv- The Key and Contents], 288, engraved title ,(by Van Der Guch after E. Kight) as frontispiece (neatly repaired on recto), 9 other engraved plates at pages 37, 41, 131,172, 179, 189, 218, 223, and 229, engraved bookplate with motto "Fax Mendis Incendium Gloariae" on front paste-down end-paper, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments (very worn), red morocco label; some foxing of text, joints a little worn, corners rubbed, but a good to very good copy. The first century Roman courtier, Gaius Petronius Arbiter (c. 27 - 67) left his literary mark on European literature with a satirical novel written around the middle of the century, the Satyricon. The narrator is a character named Encolpius, who in the first section asks an old woman where is house is, and she takes him to a brothel, and he professes to be ashamed to find himself there; later he attempts to seduce a young boy, Giton, also his slave. And so it goes.

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