Classics. Ovid's Art of Love [...], second edition thus, Lon...

Hammer

£220

Classics. Ovid's Art of Love [...], second edition thus, London: Printed for J.T. [Jacob Tonson] and Sold by William Taylor, 1716, engraved plates and in-text vignettes, early 18th century style red panelled calf, but 20th century, 8vo, another copy, later, 1782, sheep, 12mo in 6s, [Homer] & [Perkins (George)], Clavis Homerica, sive Lexicon [...], Roterodami [i.e. Rotterdam]: Arnoldi Leers, 1673, red and black title-page, woodcut vignette, contemporaneous English calf, 8vo, [Lucretius], Titi Lucretii Cari/Der rerum natura/Libri sex, Londini: In ædibus Ricardi Taylor, 1824, rebacked contemporary calf gilt, preserving some of the original spine, marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, Creech (Thomas, translator), T. Lucretius Carus, Of the Nature of Things, two-volume set, London: Printed by J. Matthews for G. Sawbridge, 1715, engraved frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf (some chips and splits, but respectable), 8vo in 4s, Wordsworth (Christopher), Athens and Attica [...], first edition, London: John Murray, 1836, folding plate, plans, and maps, further full-page plates (some stained), contemporary diced calf (tired), marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, [Virgil], Martyn (John, F.R.S, translator and editor), P. Virgilii Maronis/Georgicorum/Libri quator./The Georgicks of Virgil,/with/an English translation/and/Notes, fifth edition, Oxford: W. Baxter, 1827, frontispiece and 9 plates, each contemporaneously and cleanly hand-coloured by an amateur, 20th/21st century calf over marbled boards by the Meckling Bookbindery, their ticket, contemporary speckled edges, 8vo, History of Greece, contemporary calf gilt plus, 8vo, etc., (10). 


Provenance: 1st: Richard Warner (c. 1711-1775), of Woodford Row, Essex, botanist and literary scholar; his Jacobean armorial bookplate and tipped-in ink MS. ownership inscription preserved on recto pastedown. 3rd: Tyttenhanger Library, near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, ancestral home of the Blount and Hardwicke families; ink MS. inscription to recto pastedown. 4th: John Thomas Mott (1809-1884), of Barningham Hall, Norfolk; 'J.T. Mott/given to him by the Rev:end Dr J[ohn] Keate [head master]/on his leaving Eton-Dec:r-9th-1829 ', ink MS. inscription to verso of ffep, and Mott's later armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.