additional engraved title, letterpress title printed in red & black with device, vignette engravings including coins and a superb quarter-page plate of gladiators fighting bears and a lion, 18th century vellum, gilt, [Dibdin V: II, pp.117-118], 4to, Curante Petro Burmanno. Utrecht: William van de Water, 1709. *** The first Burmann edition of a classic Roman work of fiction in poetry and prose - "one of the best edited [such that] it is almost impossible to read Petronius in any other edition [Harwood, quoted in Dibdin]".
additional engraved title, letterpress title printed in red & black with device, vignette engravings including coins and a superb quarter-page plate of gladiators fighting bears and a lion, 18th century vellum, gilt, [Dibdin V: II, pp.117-118], 4to, Curante Petro Burmanno. Utrecht: William van de Water, 1709. *** The first Burmann edition of a classic Roman work of fiction in poetry and prose - "one of the best edited [such that] it is almost impossible to read Petronius in any other edition [Harwood, quoted in Dibdin]".
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