Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and Aulus Persius Flaccus translated and illustrated, as well with sculpture as notes. By Barten Holyday.
Oxford: printed by W. Downing, for F. Oxland Senior, J. Adams, and F. Oxland Junior, 1673. Folio, pp. [12], 341, [3]; title-p. printed in red and black; 1 engraved map, 3 engraved plates (1 double-p.), 32 engravings and 15 woodcut illustrations in the text; mild dampstain pervades fore-margin and entering text, otherwise a good, sound copy in contemporary calf, rubbed, worn, and chipped, but sound. Sectional title-p. for Satyres: translated into English by Barten Holyday ... Oxford, printed for J. Adams, and F. Oxland Senior, and F. Oxland Junior, 1673, and with the uncommon final leaf [Xx4] with the vertical half-title reading "Dr Holyday on Iuvenal." Preface to Persius contains a biography of the author. Brueggmann, p. 680; Madan, III, 2979; Wing J1276. Item #26561
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