Fl. Cresconii Corippi Africani De Laudibus Justini Augusti Minoris Libri IIII. CORIPPUS (Flavius Cresconius).

Fl. Cresconii Corippi Africani De Laudibus Justini Augusti Minoris Libri IIII. Multis in locis emendatiores opera et studio Nicolai Rittershusii qui et parentis sui Cunradi Ict et Michaelis Ruizii Assagrii Celtiberi notas adiecit. Andreas Goetzius recensuit atque omnium vocabilorum indicem addidit.

8vo. [175 x 104 x 16 mm]. xxiiii [i.e.26], 165, [85] pp. Bound c.1820 by John Clarke in reddish brown goatskin, the covers blocked with the gilt crests of the Rev. Theodore Williams. The spine divided into six panels with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second, third and fourth, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, wide turn-ins and matching inside joints tooled with multiple gilt and blind fillets, with a large flower tool and roundels in the corners, plain endleaves, gilt edges. (Joints and headcaps rubbed and the leather a little mottled).
Altorfii [i.e. Altdorf]: In officina Schupfeliana, 1743

Pp. xv-xvi were repeated in the pagination. A little browning but a very good copy.

From the celebrated library of the Rev. Theodore Williams (1785-1875), Vicar of Hendon, and bound for him by John Clarke, according to John Porter. His library was sold by Stewart, Wheatley, and Adlard in London in April 1827, this volume being lot 531, described as "Red turkey, gilt leaves, inside joints, &c" and was bought by Triphook for 18 shillings. It was subsequently in the library of Christopher Benson, sold at Sotheby 4/3/1869 for 6 shillings to Charles Butler (1821-1910) of Warren Wood in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, a member of the Roxburghe Club from 1883.

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