Ionica. Smith, Elder and Co., 1858; bound with Ionica II, Cambridge University Press, 1877

Cory [Cory (William Johnson)].          Contemporary blue morocco by Stoakley Somewhat crudely rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt edges and rules to inner covers. Lower hinge cracked, short tear and slight soiling to first title-page, nevertheless a nice copy. Inscribed in Latin to W.R.I[nge] (the 'gloomy Dean' and Professor of Divinity at Cambridge) by Hugh MacNaghten. They were both schoolboy contemporaries and rivals in College at Eton. With the pencilled corrections in the texts. Together with:[Cory] (William Johnson). Lucretilis, An Introduction to the Art of Writing Latin Lyric Verses, Part I, E.P. Williams and Son, Eton, 1871, traces of label affecting text to title-page, with the erratum-slip and four pages publishers' advertisements at end; bound with: Part II, E.P. Williams and Son, Eton, 1871, with four pages publishers' advertisements at end; bound with: Key to Lucretilis Parts I and II, E.P. Williams and Son, Eton, 1871, with the (lightly dust-soiled) original salmon-pink upper wrapper bound in; bound with: Paley (F.A.). Lycidas, by John Milton. Reprinted from the First Edition of 1638, and collated with the Autograph Copy in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, with a version in Latin hexameters, George Bell & Sons, 1874, title-page with remnants of original blue upper wrapper at inner margin. first few leaves a little spotted; bound with: Denman (The Hon. George). Gray's Elegy, translated into Greek Elegiacs, Deighton, Bell, and Co., Cambridge, 1871, with the half-title and final blank; bound with: Thackeray (F. St John). [A privately printed book of translations into Latin and Greek], the pale blue upper wrapper (torn without loss, a little soiled and with some partially removed scribbling, bound in, bearing his printed initials and the words "Ubi quid datur oti, illudo chartis", and with Thackeray's slightly cropped presentation inscription and autograph emendations, no date but c. 1870Bound in slightly later (?) plain green cloth, spine ruled and lettered "Translations" in gilt, with the Herbert L. Drake Pembroke College Library bequest label with cancellation stamp (confirmed by Pembroke College Library), a signature and list of some of the contents in pencil presumably in Drake's hand on the front free end-paper, and with the bookplate of G.W. Prothero on the front pastedown.This is an extraordinary sammelband of rare and important works.The two volumes:   

Price: £4500