Marcus Flaminius;

Knight (Ellis Cornelia)

Marcus Flaminius;

or, a view of the military, political, and social life of the Romans: in a series of letters from a patrician to his friend; in the Year DCC.LXII from the Foundation of Rome, to the Year DCC.LXIX. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II].

Description: FIRST EDITION, complete with half-titles, pp. xii, 402; [iv], 341, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, twin black lettering pieces, yellow edges, minor wear, good, engraved armorial bookplate in both vols. of Charlotte Mary Peters, and her signature at the head of the titles

Publication Details: Printed for C. Dilly, 1792

Notes: The second work of Cornelia Knight, 'Nelson's poet laureate', following her Dinarbas, a continuation of Johnson's Rasselas. Scarce.The paper has a variable tendency to blue-ness, where most blue, it is a little mottled.Charlotte Mary Peters is possibly the future wife of Henry Holland, the architect, though she was only 4 years old in 1792.

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Price: £1,500

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1792

Stock Number: 61459

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