[Rarebooks] fa: LUCRETIUS - THE NATURE OF THINGS 1803 - Thomas Busby - ExLibris EARL CORNWALLIS

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Titus Lucretius Carus; Thomas Busby (trans. and ed.): The Nature of Things, a Didascalic Poem... Accompanied with Commentaries, comparative, illustrative, and scientific; and the Life of Epicurus. Published under the express auspices of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent; and dedicated to the Right Honourable Lord Grenville, chancellor of the University of Oxford.. In two volumes. London: Printed...for the Author. Published by J. Rodwell [et al], 1813. First edition; two volumes, 4to (31.5 cm), in period diced calf, marbled endpapers and page edges; engraved portrait frontispiece.

Front boards detached, spine leather mostly gone; modest general toning and offsetting to the contents, occasional browning and spotting (more noticeable in the second volume); from the library of the Earl Cornwallis, with his engraved armorial bookplates on the front paste-downs. A handsomely printed work.