Classics. [Aeschylus], [...] Aeschyli Tragoediae [...], two-...

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£40 - £60

Classics. [Aeschylus], [...] Aeschyli Tragoediae [...], two-volume set, Glasguæ: In Aedibus Academicis, excudebant Robertus Foulis, 1746, parallel ancient Greek and Latin text, some contemporaneous manuscript annotation and glosses, browned and some markings, contemporary, split, worn losses, red-speckled edges, 8vo, [Gaskell 71], idem., Porson (Richard, editor) & Dindorf (Wilhelm, editor), Aeschyli Tragœdiæ, Londini: Apud Black, Young & Young, 1827, contemporary olive polished calf, sunned spine bumped with some loss, marbled edges and endpapers, Sold by W. Heath, Lincoln's Inn Fields, his contemporary ticket to recto pastedown, 12mo, (3) 

Provenance: 1st: St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, Kent, former Benedictine abbey; their bookplates to pastedown, spines with shelf numbering. 2nd: Coombe/Coll: Div: Pet: [Peterhouse]/Cantab: [Cambridge]/Nov. 1842, recto blank with ink MS ownership inscription.