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Sallustius, Gaius Crispus. [ONLY KNOWN BOOKPLATE ENGRAVED BY PROTHERO]. - C. Crispi Sallustii Bellum Catilinarium et Jugurthinum; Cum Versione Libera. . . . The History of the Wars of Catiline and Jugurtha.

London: Printed for W. Clarke (Son to the Author) under the Piazza, at the Back of the Royal-Exchange; and sold by J. Mace and G. Ferraby, at Hull; et. al. 1755. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xli, [i], 239, [i]pp. Fourth edition. Title-page in red-and-black. Contemporary calf, repaired. With the festoon armorial bookplate of John Lloyd, Clerk, e Coll. Jesu Oxon. engraved by F. Prothero. ESTC N26124. Translated by John Clarke, with the corresponding text in Latin and English on two columns. It also contains a study by Clarke; "A large dissertation upon the usefulness of translations of Classick Authors." According to Ellis's Catalogue of British and American Book-Plates (ex libris) collected by the late Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, London, 1905, Part I, p. 112, item no. 3340, this is the only plate known by this engraver. Good.
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