Greek anthology

8vo (152 x 86mm.), title in Greek and Latin with woodcut device ruled in red, Greek text throughout, interleaved with blanks with translations in Latin in a neat sixteenth-century hand, occasional notes on text leaves, late eighteenth-century red morocco (apparently by Roger Payne), single fillet border to covers, spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges, lacking final two leaves (**3-4) containing anchor device only, spine slightly soiled

Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), bookplate; her half-brother, Mathew Wilson of Eshton Hall, bookplate, who sold her library at Sotheby's, 30 July 1862, lot 37, stating that the binding was by Roger Payne

Renouard UCLA 354; Renouard 148:7

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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A good copy from the library of the noted nineteenth-century bibliophile Frances Mary Richardson Currer.