History of Roman Literature, From Its Earliest Period to The Augustan Age. In Two Volumes. [With:] During The Augustan Age, Volume Three.
History of Roman Literature, From Its Earliest Period to The Augustan Age. In Two Volumes. [With:] During The Augustan Age, Volume Three.

History of Roman Literature, From Its Earliest Period to The Augustan Age. In Two Volumes. [With:] During The Augustan Age, Volume Three.

  • Dunlop, John
  • London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1823

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FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [i], 598; [iv], 627, [1]; [ii], 615, [1]. Errata slip tipped in to the rear of vol. 2, half-title of vol. 3 discarded. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines divided by raised bands between gilt rules and lettered direct in gilt, other compartments tooled in blind, edges sprinkled red. Some scattered spotting. Rubbed, some spine gilding rubbed away, a touch of wear to edges. Bookplates of William Patrick Adam, Blair Adam Library to pastedowns, top strips of flyleaves clipped to remove inscriptions, ownership inscriptions of John B. Hood to flyleaves beneath.

Notes

The first editions of Dunlop's two-volume history, 'which is notable for useful abstracts of the works under consideration and illustrations drawn from modern European literatures' (ODNB), together with the first edition of its companion work, published four years later and designated 'volume three' on its title-page to complete a set with the earlier volumes. John Dunlop (1785-1842) was a Glasgow-born writer and Sheriff-depute of Renfrewshire. Henry Cockburn remembered him in his diaries as 'exceedingly like a little, old, gray cuddy—a nice kindly body, with a clear, soft Scotch voice … Everybody loved Dunlop; and, with the single exception of a relation who was always trying to swindle him, there was no one whom Dunlop did not love.'

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