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Bohn's Library

Various

1846-89

H G Bohn; Bell & Daldy; David Bogue : London

7.5" by 4.5"

 

   

SUMMARY

 A uniform set of twenty volumes from Henry Bohn's celebrated 'Library' series.

First Edition,Illustrated,Publishers' Original Binding

Overall Condition: Good

This book weighs 10 KG when packed

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DESCRIPTION

From the 'Bohn's Library' series inaugurated by Henry George Bohn in 1846. These targeted mass markets and comprise editions of standard works and translations concerned with history, science, classics, theology, and archaeology. First editions in the series.

The complete series consists of 766 volumes. 

A popular and successful work due to the volumes selling at low prices and their lack of literary pretensions.

The series was published by Bohn's Libraries until 1865, when it was sold to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons.

The present comprised with the following:

From Bohn's Classica Library:

1851 'The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis, and Halieutico of Ovid' translated and edited by Henry T Riley. No half title. Publisher's advertisements to endpapers. 

1851 'Lucretius on the Nature of Things' translated by John Selby Watson. No half title, advertising leaves to front and rear.

1853 'The Idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus' translated and edited by J Banks and J M Chapman. No half title. With advertising leaves to front and rear. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece. 

1865 'The Iliad of Homer,' translated by Alexander Pope, edited by J S Watson. The first edition in the series. Illustrated with the entire series of Flaxman's Designs. Collated with all thirty-nine plates. Bound without half title. Numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1876 'The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis' translated and edited by J Banks. Complete with half title and numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1876 'The Treatises of MT Cicero' translated and edited by C D Yonge. Complete with half title and numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1876 'The Politics and Economics of Aristotle,' translated and edited by Edward Walford. Complete with half title and numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1880 'The Anabasis, or Expedition of Cyrus and the Memorabilia of Socrates' translated from the Greek of Xenophon by JS Warson. No half title. Illustrated with a frontispiece. With publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1889 'The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius' translated into English prose from the text of R Merkel, by Edward P Coleridge. Complete with half title. Photograph pasted to rear pastedown.


From Bohn's Antiquarian Library: 

1848 'Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances' by George Ellis. A new edition revised by J O Halliwell. Illustrated with a frontispiece. With half title as well as publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1849-54 'Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain' by John Brand. A new edition. Vols I and II of three only. With frontispieces. No half titles. Advertisements to front and rear vol II.

1850 'The Fairy Mythology' by Thomas Keightley. A new edition, revised and enlarged. No half title. With publisher's catalogue and advertising leaves to front and rear. With engraved frontispiece. 

1853 'The Annals of Roger de Hoveden,' translated by Henry T Riley. In two volumes. No half title. With advertising leaves to front and rear. 

1853 'The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon' translated and edited by Thomas Forester. Complete with half title, publisher's advertisements to front and rear, and engraved frontispiece. 

1854 'Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland,' translted by Henry T Riley. Complete with half title as well as publisher's catalogue and advertising leaves to front and rear.


From Bohn's Illustrated History:

1854 'The Natural History of Selborne' by Gilbert White, edited by Sir William Jardine and Edward Jesse. No half title. With publisher's advertisements to front and rear. Collated with all forty engravings.


Bohn's Extra Volume: 

1846 'Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second' by Count Grammont. Edited by Sir Walter Scott. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece. Collated, bound without any further illustrations. Publisher's catalogue to rear. 


From Bogue's European Library:

1865 'Life of Lorenzo de Medici' by William Roscoe. With half title. Engraved frontispiece.


CONDITION

In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally a trifle rubbed with bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Boards and back strip lightly marked. Chipping and light loss to back strip of 'Ingulph's 'Chronicle,' and 'White's Selborne.' Previous owner's ink inscription to recto front blank leaf 'The Argonautica' undated. Pencil owner's gift inscription to 'Lucretius' title page, undated. Front free endpaper 'Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances excised by previous owner. With small sticker to front pastedown 'Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances'. With previous ownership bookplates and stamps to endpapers 'Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain'. Ink inscription from previous owner to title page 'Annals of Roger de Hoveden' dated 1943 both vols I and II. Previous ownership stamp to title page 'The Natural History of Selborne'. Internally, binding generally firm to most volumes. Binding tender to 'The Anabasis,' with strained hinges, text block head to front by two cords only, rear board detached. Binding tender 'Bohn's extra volume' with title page and further leaves loose but present. Light spotting scattered to leaves, affecting leaves of plates in particular.

Overall Condition: Good 

 

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

 

Overall Condition

(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)

Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear

Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy

Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones

often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy

Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will

be described in the condition report under 'condition'

Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair

Fair - As with good only above but with other faults

leaving a compromised copy even after repair

Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.

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