The Idyliums

by Theocritus, Trans. by Francis Fawkes

$100 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

First edition

London: Dryden Leach for the Author, 1767. 8vo. 288p. Frontispiece by Grignion. List of subscribers, and errata leaf present. Contemporary calf. Rebacked. Provenance: Stephen White, L. L. D., contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Item #403175 FIRST EDITION. The Celebrated Mr. Samuel Johnson Has Corrected Part Of This Work, And Furnished Me With Some Judicious Remarks Preface . Johnson was a

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