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£400
8vo, pp. [iv], cxviii, [2], 111, [1]. Engraved portrait medallions on title-page and following leaf. Slightly later vellum, boards bordered with gilt rolls, spine divided by gilt rolls, black morocco label, other compartments gilt in a diaper pattern, watered silk endpapers, edges gilt. Some light foxing. Vellum slightly soiled, a touch of wear to head of spine.
A pleasant copy of Bodoni's more elegant printing of Anacreon from 1791. Bodoni often produced more than one edition of a text at the same time, experimenting with different formats and types. In 1791 he printed this edition as well as a smaller 16mo of the same text, but only this version of the two was printed entirely in capital letters. 'The editions of 1785 and 1791 are printed in capital letters, and more elegant and exquisitely finished productions cannot be conceived' (Dibdin). This copy is on thicker paper with a cross watermark.
