Pickering, William (publisher)
Set of finely bound miniature 'Diamond Classics'
£530
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
11 works, 64mo (7.9 x 4.5cm), later dark red calf gilt, all edges gilt, housed in custom red velvet-lined leather case with button catch, each with engraved frontispiece and additional title-page (except Novum Testamentum, frontispiece only, Iliad and Odyssey, with frontispiece to Iliad only, and Terence and Horace, with neither), letterpress title-pages with wood-engraved vignettes, variable generally light spotting to blanks and outer leaves, titles comprise:
Cicero, De Officis, De Senectute et De Amicitia, 1821;
Virgil, [Aeneid], 1821;
Dante, La Divina Commedia, 1822;
Torquato Tasso, La Gerusalemme Liberata, 1822, corner of front cover bumped;
Petrarch, Le Rime, 1822, a couple of abrasions to front cover;
Terence, [Opera], 1823;
Horace, [Opera], 1824;
Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius, [Opera], 1824, frontispiece and additional title-page
Novum Testamentum Graecum, 1828, frontispiece shaved along fore edge, with half-title;
Homer, Ilias [and:] Odysseia [both in Greek], 1831