Author: PLINY The Younger.
Title: Pliny's Panegyrick Upon the Emperor Trajan, Faithfully Rendred [sic] into English from the Original. By George Smith of North Nibley in the County of Glocester, Eq;
Description: London, Printed and are to be sold by the Booksellers of Lond and Westminster. 1702. 8vo, 181 x 115 mms., pp. xxvi, 27 - 176, errata slip pasted on page [xxiv], contemporary panelled calf; no leaves before title-page and no rear free end-paper, spine dried, lacks spine label, with the recent armorial bookplate of "Little of Liberton, Esq" on the front paste-down end-paper, which covers ink scribbles on the end-paper, where the name "John Clerk" appears on the top margin and also on the title-page This seems to be the only translation into English of the Younger Pliny's tribute to Trajan, Emperor of Rome, 53-117. ESTC N12177 noting that "Apparently printed by John Darby; the work is listed in an advertisement for 'Books printed by J. Darby' in Algernon Sidney's Discourses concerning government, 1704."

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