Classics. Forty-seven volumes, of which thirty-five volumes ...

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£120 - £180

Classics. Forty-seven volumes, of which thirty-five volumes are from the library of John Wordsworth FBA (1843-1911), biblical & classical scholar, later Bishop of Salisbury (1885-1911), early 19th c and later, various marks of ownership, including Velleius Paterculus, Historiae Romanae libris duobus, Leipzig: Weidmannos, 1835, recto pastedown and ffep annotated in manuscript, contemporary German marbled boards, green edges, 8vo; Polybius, Historia, Dindorf's edition, four volumes bound as two, 1866-68, contemporary English floppy calf, 8vo; twenty further volumes of ancient Greek and Latin authors, including literature, history and philosophy, uniformly and similarly bound, including Seneca, Xenophon, etc., some annotation, 8vo; two Winchester College morocco prize armorial bindings, Paley's Aesychlus (1855) & Bergk's Poetate Lyrici Graeci (1853), one worn and split, 8vo; Livy & Weissenborn (Wilhelm, editor), Ab urbe condita, Books I-X, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1875, some pencil annotation, contemporary English half-vellum over cloth, morocco lettering pieces, 8vo; Petronius, Satyricon, Berlin, 1842, English quarter-calf, split and worn, 8vo; Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773, lacking covers, 12mo in 6s; Paley's edition of The Elegies of Propertius, inscribed presentation copy from the editor, 1872, cloth, 8vo; two volumes of Sophocles edited by Jebb, Cambridge University Press, 1896 & 1902, original cloth, 8vo; further classical texts, various provenances, including some further Wordsworth family members, comprising Blakesley (Joseph Williams), Herodotus, with a Commentary, two volumes, London: Whittaker and Co., 1854, contemporary vellum over boards, morocco lettering pieces, red edges, marbled endpapers, 1861 ownership inscription: Richard Stutely Cobbett, Pembroke College, Oxford, 8vo; Elmsley's edition of Bacchae by Euripides, 1832, Christopher Wordsworth copy (1807-1885), quarter-calf, worn, 8vo; interleaved Lucretius, with some manuscript; Æschylus, etc., mixed bindings and sizes, (47)