£50
Classics, Bibliography and Lexicography. Du Fresne (Charles, sieur du Cange), Glossarium ad scriptores mediæ & infimæ græcitatis [...], Lugduni [Lyon]: apud Anissonios, Joan. Pousel, & Claud. Rigaud, 1688, allegorical general title-page engraved by Pierre Giffart, Greek and Latin printing in double-columns, contemporary English calf gilt, raised bands, rubbed with some light losses, lower-joint of upper-cover with in-keeping repair, red-speckled edges, folio (38.1 x 27cm)
Provenance: 1) Bibliotheca Backfieldiensis/Pr: £1. 6s. 0d, 18th century MS inscription on ffep. 2) Wakefield School Library, [Yorkshire], early 19th c wood-engraved bookplate to recto pastedown. 3) Eric Gerald Stanley, FBA, (1923-2018), Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor, University of Oxford, his circular bookplate ditto.
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