Carey john c editor (3 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 535 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

12mo, pp.[4], 344; with half-title, wood-engraved Prince of Wales's feathers ornament to half-title, wood-engraved vignette to title; a few creased corners, but a very good copy; uncut and largely unopened in publisher's printed boards, with wood-engraved feathers ornament to front board, advertisements to rear board, both boards printed within Greek-key border; a little bumped at extremities with crack to lower corner of front board, a few slight spots.First and only 'Regent's Classics' edition of Silius Italicus's epic poem on the Second Punic War, an attractive copy, uncut in the publisher's printed boards. The 'Regent's Classics' was a uniform series of pocket-format editions of classical authors edited by the Irish Classicist John Carey (17561826), published by a large consortium of London booksellers. The use of the Prince Regent's name and badge in marketing the books is likely, at least in part, an allusion to the better-known Delphin Classics, initially produced for the Grand Dauphin in the 1670s. Language: Latin. …