The satires of Juvenal: translated and illustrated

by Francis Hodgson, A. M., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge by Juvenal

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First edition

London: printed by T. Bensley, for Payne and Mackinlay, 1807. First edition of this translation, large 4to, pp. 8 , xxxix, 1 , 572; nice copy in full contemporary diced calf, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine, sprinkled edges. With the early armorial bookplate of Westport House. A profusely annotated and well-printed verse translation of Juvenal, by a close friend of Lord Byron, whose name appears in the 4-page list of subscribers. Hodgson was 27

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