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[Opera]. HORATIUS (Quintus Flaccus).
GIVEN TO THE EARL OF DARNLEY ON HIS LEAVING ETON
Engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette.
4to. [300 x 235 x 31 mm]. [2]ff, 344pp. Bound in contemporary blueish green goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a border of repeated urn and flower and sprig tools, and at the centre the arms block of John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley. Smooth spine divided into six panels by a gilt metope and pentaglyph pallet, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, and dated at the foot on a recent replacement red goatskin label, the others with the urn and vase centre and flowers and sprigs in the corners, the edges of the boards and turn-ins hatched in gilt, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (Rubbed and refurbished, with minor loss).
Birminghamiæ: typis Johannis Baskerville, 1770
Gaskell, John Baskerville, 39.
Bound without the four additional plates, found by Gaskell in half of the copies examined. Occasional light browning, including the frontispiece, but a very good copy. The binding has suffered some rubbing and lost the date label, but remains solid and attractive.
There is an ink inscription on the front endleaf: "1784 e dono Jonathan Davies / Coll. Regal. Eton". The arms on the covers belong to John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley (1767-1831). Born in Ireland he was styled Lord Clifton until 1781, when he succeeded his father. He left Eton in 1784 and matriculated at Christ Church Oxford in November of that year. His portrait by Reynolds hangs in the Provost's Lodge at Eton. In 1791 he married Elizabeth Brownlow and they had seven children. They resided at Cobham Hall, near Gravesend in Kent, and Bligh was a noted amateur cricketer, who made 27 recorded first-class appearances between 1789 and 1796, and he and his brother were known as "the first Irish first-cass cricketers". In 1882/3 his great-grandson, Ivo Bligh, later 8th Earl, captained the England cricket team in the first ever Test series against Australia with the Ashes at stake.
The 4th Earl appears to have been a discerning book collector and the British Armorial Bookbindings database locates seven other volumes with the same arms block, one previously in the Lamoignon Library and another bound by Charles Hering. An example attributed to Henry Walther is illustrated and described by Howard Nixon in, The Oldaker Collection of British Book-Bindings in Westminster Abbey Library, no.29.
Stock no. ebc8522
GIVEN TO THE EARL OF DARNLEY ON HIS LEAVING ETON
Engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette.
4to. [300 x 235 x 31 mm]. [2]ff, 344pp. Bound in contemporary blueish green goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a border of repeated urn and flower and sprig tools, and at the centre the arms block of John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley. Smooth spine divided into six panels by a gilt metope and pentaglyph pallet, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, and dated at the foot on a recent replacement red goatskin label, the others with the urn and vase centre and flowers and sprigs in the corners, the edges of the boards and turn-ins hatched in gilt, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (Rubbed and refurbished, with minor loss).
Birminghamiæ: typis Johannis Baskerville, 1770
Gaskell, John Baskerville, 39.
Bound without the four additional plates, found by Gaskell in half of the copies examined. Occasional light browning, including the frontispiece, but a very good copy. The binding has suffered some rubbing and lost the date label, but remains solid and attractive.
There is an ink inscription on the front endleaf: "1784 e dono Jonathan Davies / Coll. Regal. Eton". The arms on the covers belong to John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley (1767-1831). Born in Ireland he was styled Lord Clifton until 1781, when he succeeded his father. He left Eton in 1784 and matriculated at Christ Church Oxford in November of that year. His portrait by Reynolds hangs in the Provost's Lodge at Eton. In 1791 he married Elizabeth Brownlow and they had seven children. They resided at Cobham Hall, near Gravesend in Kent, and Bligh was a noted amateur cricketer, who made 27 recorded first-class appearances between 1789 and 1796, and he and his brother were known as "the first Irish first-cass cricketers". In 1882/3 his great-grandson, Ivo Bligh, later 8th Earl, captained the England cricket team in the first ever Test series against Australia with the Ashes at stake.
The 4th Earl appears to have been a discerning book collector and the British Armorial Bookbindings database locates seven other volumes with the same arms block, one previously in the Lamoignon Library and another bound by Charles Hering. An example attributed to Henry Walther is illustrated and described by Howard Nixon in, The Oldaker Collection of British Book-Bindings in Westminster Abbey Library, no.29.
Stock no. ebc8522
GIVEN TO THE EARL OF DARNLEY ON HIS LEAVING ETON
Engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette.
4to. [300 x 235 x 31 mm]. [2]ff, 344pp. Bound in contemporary blueish green goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a border of repeated urn and flower and sprig tools, and at the centre the arms block of John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley. Smooth spine divided into six panels by a gilt metope and pentaglyph pallet, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, and dated at the foot on a recent replacement red goatskin label, the others with the urn and vase centre and flowers and sprigs in the corners, the edges of the boards and turn-ins hatched in gilt, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (Rubbed and refurbished, with minor loss).
Birminghamiæ: typis Johannis Baskerville, 1770
Gaskell, John Baskerville, 39.
Bound without the four additional plates, found by Gaskell in half of the copies examined. Occasional light browning, including the frontispiece, but a very good copy. The binding has suffered some rubbing and lost the date label, but remains solid and attractive.
There is an ink inscription on the front endleaf: "1784 e dono Jonathan Davies / Coll. Regal. Eton". The arms on the covers belong to John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley (1767-1831). Born in Ireland he was styled Lord Clifton until 1781, when he succeeded his father. He left Eton in 1784 and matriculated at Christ Church Oxford in November of that year. His portrait by Reynolds hangs in the Provost's Lodge at Eton. In 1791 he married Elizabeth Brownlow and they had seven children. They resided at Cobham Hall, near Gravesend in Kent, and Bligh was a noted amateur cricketer, who made 27 recorded first-class appearances between 1789 and 1796, and he and his brother were known as "the first Irish first-cass cricketers". In 1882/3 his great-grandson, Ivo Bligh, later 8th Earl, captained the England cricket team in the first ever Test series against Australia with the Ashes at stake.
The 4th Earl appears to have been a discerning book collector and the British Armorial Bookbindings database locates seven other volumes with the same arms block, one previously in the Lamoignon Library and another bound by Charles Hering. An example attributed to Henry Walther is illustrated and described by Howard Nixon in, The Oldaker Collection of British Book-Bindings in Westminster Abbey Library, no.29.
Stock no. ebc8522