[Rarebooks] fa: MUSAE ANGLICANAE 1741 - VINCENT BOURNE, JOSEPH ADDISON &c - 2 VOLS./PERIOD CALF

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[Vincent Bourne, editor:] Musæ Anglicanæ: sive Poemata quædam melioris notæ, seu hactenus Inedita, seu sparsim Edita, in duo volumina congesta. Editio Quinta. Londini [London]: Ex Officinâ J. & R. Tonson, & J. Watts, MDCCXLI [1741]. First edition thus. Text in Latin. Two volumes, tall 12mo (17 cm), in full period calf, gilt-ruled borders, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; [12], 288 pp.; [12], 288 pp.; title-pages printed in red & black; engraved title vignettes, woodcut head-pieces and initials. ESTC T134541.

A collection of medieval and modern Anglo-Latin poetry, it had first appeared as Musarum anglicanarum analecta in 1692, but this fifth edition was the first to be edited by Vincent Bourne (1695-1747), generally considered the finest Latin poet of his  time. In it, numerous works appear for the first time, including William Markham's "Judicium Paridis" and such intriguing titles as "Camera Obscura", "Lanterna Megalographica", and "Atrium Peckwateriense." Other writers include Joseph Addison, Nicholas L'Estrange, James Harrington, Henry Sacheverell, etc.

Bindings with modest bumping and wear to the corners, front joints and spine ends professionally repaired, new spine label and front endpapers added to vol. I; offsetting from the original binder's glue to the edges of first and last few leaves; soiling to the upper fore-corner of the first eight leaves of vol. II; a few leaves bumped/creased at the corners; otherwise quite clean and sound, firmly bound. From the library at Encombe House, Dorset, the seat of John Scott (1751-1838), 1st Earl of Eldon and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Paste-down of vol. II with a bookplate bearing the family's heraldic devices and motto (Sit sine labe decus: "Let honour be without stain") and the signature of "Gs. [Gulielmus] Scott e Coll: Univ. Coc." A Latin inscription on the page opposite, dated "Encombe 1836," identifies the original owner as Lord Eldon's brother William Scott, later Lord Stowell.