THE SATIRES OF JUVENAL.

JUVENAL, Tr. Francis Hodgson

Published by Printed By T Bensley For Payne And Mackinlay London, 1807

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[8], xxxix, [1], 572pp. 4to. English version of Juvenal's fifteen satires, with extensive endnotes, by the Cambridge scholar and lifelong friend and correspondent of Byron. Byron features in the preliminary list of subscribers. Presentation inscription from Eton schoolmaster E C Hawtrey (according to the list five copies were printed for a presumed kinsman Rev Stephen Hawtrey) to Egerton Leigh (1815-76) whose armorial bookplate is on the pastedown. The occasion of the presentation was the recipient's leaving Eton ('ab Etona discedenti') in 1830. In the following decades Francis Hodgson and E C Hawtrey served consecutively as provost of the school. Contemporary full calf, decorative gilt borders to both panels, spine lettered gilt and decorated gilt in compartments and on raised bands. Binding sensitively rebacked and restored, although one of the raised bands has been mostly chipped off. Later front and rear marbled endpapers and reinforcement to hinges. Seller Inventory # C20579

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE SATIRES OF JUVENAL.

Publisher: Printed By T Bensley For Payne And Mackinlay London

Publication Date: 1807

Binding: Hardcover