Author: TACITUS.
Title: C. Cornelii Taciti opera. Recognovit, emendavit, supplementis explevit, notis, dissertationibus, tabulis geographicis illustravit Gabriel Brotier.
Description: Edinburgi: Jacobi Mundell & Londini: G.G. et J. Robinson, et T. Payne, 1796. 4 vols. LXVI,481, 529, 602, 566, 160 (= index) pp. 1 fold. table & 4 fold. engr. maps by Robert de Vaugondy (antique world, Asia, Italy & Germania). Uniform contemp. full calf bindings, spines raised, gilt & blind tooled, marbled edges & endpapers. - Spine-ends & corners sl. worn; spine-ends of vol. 1 sl. dam.Complete set of this rather rare edition in four splendid bindings, decorated with sophisticated floral ornaments. - With owner's inscription of E.C. Woodcock, a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge. He was a young lecturer at Manchester before being appointed to the chair of Latin at Durham in 1948. He was joined by J. B. Skemp as professor of Greek in 1950, and the two of them presided over the post-war recovery and growth of the Department of Classics.

Keywords: Classical Philology Klassieke filologie ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / V