A. Persi Flacci et D. Juni Juvenalis satyrae. Edidit brevique adnotatione critica denuo instuxit W. V. Clausen. by JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius & PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus

Oxford: R. Bliss, 1807. Full-Leather. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Lacks the spine leather, covers rubbed, front cover detached. The text is complete, repaired tear to 241/242(with some chipping to the fore-edge margin), foxing to the title, periodical browning in places. Pages; (2), 399, (17). Contains Juvenal's Satires books 10-16, and the Satires of Persius complete in 6 parts.

Nabu Press, 2011-08-22. Paperback. Good.

London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1726. [Latin poetry] EARLY EDITION, the fifth. Duodecimo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4] cxii; 296. With 23 copper plates, including two frontispieces and a dedication portrait of the Earl of Dorset. Later brown quarter calf, tan cloth to sides. Red label with gilt titles and raised bands to spine. All edges speckled red, untrimmed. Leaves lightly toned, a few instances of offsetting from copper plates. Bookplate to front pastedown, partially removed. Top edge toned, binding fine. Very good. The translated works of Juvenal and Persius, two foundational figures of the Roman Satire.

(Joseph Bentham for) Gul. Sandby (et. al.), Cantabrigiae (Cambridge): 1763., 1763 pp. (12), 207 + Fifteen unusual engraved plates. Bound by Cecil & Larkins in full English calf. Boards detached. An extremely fine copy internally. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 5 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

Apud Ph. Masson, Turonibus (Tours): 1687., 1687 pp. 250, (1); 83, (1). Small 12mo. 15 cm. Worn contemporary French full leather binding. Early manuscript Archambault ownerships. This version of Juvenal was edited by Joseph de Jouvency (1643-1719). Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 6 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

London: Printed for J. Tonson. Fair. 1726. Hardcover. ; Tan calf leather with gilt embossed spine and 5 raised bands has old glue along hinge holding back board on. Front board is detached but present. One quarter inch dentelles, marbled end sheets and paste downs with former owner's bookplate affixed. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are toned and foxed but clean and very good. A nice candidate for repairing cover or rebinding. .

Arnoldum & Regnerum Leers, Rotterdam and The Hague: 1683., 1683 119p. + Engraved title page (which shows Baccus sitting on the globe). Light damp and age stain. Thin 32mo. [115 x 58 mm.] Contemporary full leather binding, varnished and cracked at joints. Juvenal was a great Roman satirical poet. His verse established a model for the satire of indignation, in contrast to the less harsh satire of ridicule of Horace. Little is known about his life except that during much of it he was desperately poor. A tradition tells that as a youth he was banished from court for satirizing an imperial favorite; later his work reveals a deep hatred for the Emperor Domitian. He is known chiefly for his 16 satires, which contain a vivid representation of life in Rome under the empire. They were probably written in the years between A.D. 100 and A.D. 128. The biting tone of his diatribes has seldom been equaled. From the stern point of view of the older Roman standards he powerfully denounces the lax and luxurious… Read More

Glasguae: Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, academiae typographi, 1750. Pot 8vo, pp. [4], 112; bound with, as issued, Auli Persii Flacci satirarum, pp.123-134, [2] (ads); full contemporary vellum, smooth gilt-decorated spine, red morocco label, edges stained red; spine and boards toned, very good. Gaskell 158.

Londini: ex officina Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1716. 12mo, pp. [46], 126, [154]; title page printed in red and black; engraved frontispiece, woodcut initials and ornaments; full contemporary speckled calf, spine in 5 compartments, brown morocco label in 1, sprinkled edges; upper joint starting, extremities lightly rubbed; good and sound.

Charles Whittingham, at the Chiswick Press, London: 1845., 1845 4to. [272 x 215 mm.] (192p.). Each page framed in a red printed floral border. All edges gold. Riviere binding of calf is worn and now needs re-backing. ** Eton Prize Book (Swann, 1850). Decimus Juniu s Juvenalis (Circa: 55 - 130 A.D.) was one of the greatest of Roman satirists. Born in Aquinum, Italy, he served in Britain and in Egypt as tribune in the army. He is best known for sixteen splendid s atires in verse, dealing with life in the Roman era under Domitian and his successors. He affected the attitudes an angry Stoic moralist. He exposed unnatural vices; anguished over the misery of pover ty; fooled with the precarious life of courtiers and status-seekers; and condemned the extravagance of the ruling classes. His works are often bound with those of Aulus Persius Flaccus (34?62 A.D.), a nother Roman satirical poet who was greatly attached to the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Cornutus. His writings (only six short satires),… Read More