Author: PERSIUS.
Title: The Satires of Persius Translated into English Verse; with some Occasional Notes and the Original Text corrected. The Second Edition; To which is now prefixed, The Life of the Author.
Description: London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1751. Small 8vo, pp. [ii], xxiv, 154 [155 - 156 adverts], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments (but faded); joints cracked, lacks label. With the contemporary armorial bookplate of Thomas Salwey, L L D, Richards Castle, Salop, on the front paste-down end-paper, and the 20th century library ticket of Payson G. Gates on the verso of the front free end-paper. The translations of Persius' satires by Thomas Brewster were published separately in the early 1740s, and this "second edition" is the first to collect them all in one volume.

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