Eldrington, C. R. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. Volume V. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1973. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Light shelf-wear, still very good. Ref: 53990
Elrington, C. R. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester. Volume VIII: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1968. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, a touch of dust to edges, fine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, a touch grubby, with creasing along top edge, fraying at one corner and two small closed tears over base of spine otherwise intact. Overall. still a good to very good copy. Ref: 54085
Elton, C.I., Mackay, H.J.H.: Robinson on Gavelkind: The common law of Kent, or the customs of gavelkind. London: Butterworth & Co., 1897. 8vo, pp. [xxxv], 266. Slight browning, edges dusty, occasional very minor spotting, but still a good copy. Black cloth, boards and spine gilt, joints and extremities a little rubbed, hinges starting, but still a good copy. Fifth edition. Ref: 53507
Emerick, Judson J.: The Tempietto del Clitunno near Spoleto. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 4to., pp. 630. Hardback: cloth. Dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 54620
Enders, Jody: Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries: Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 536. Hardback: burgundy cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54304
Epictetus: (Schweighauser, J., ed.:) Dissertationum ab Arriano Digestarum Libri IV. Eiusdem Enchiridion, et ex deperditis sermonibus fragmenta. Post Io. Uptoni aliorumque curas [...] Lipsiae [Leipzig]: in libraria Weidmannia 1799 (vols.I-III), 1800 (vols.IV-V), 1798 (vol.VI) 6 vols. bound as 7. 8vo., pp.XXXII, 684; [iv], 465, [v]; [v], 466-969, [vii]; [iv], 504; [iv], 540; [iv], 500; CLX, 412. Very occasional light foxing but generally remarkably bright and clean within. Uniformly bound in slightly later brown straight-grain morocco, raised bands, gilt-lettered spines, gilt centrepiece to each board, a.e.g., wide gilt dentelles. Bands and edges rubbed, spines a little scuffed, a few marks, bookplates attached to each ffep causing the paper to cockle slightly, very good. To the upper board of each volume a gilt centrepiece cartouche with the initials T.W., a bird crest and the motto Deus Alit Me; to each rear board a small gilt coat of arms. Together with a small clipping from an auction catalogue pasted to the ffep in vol.I these identify as a previous owner Rev. Theodore Williams (his library sold by in London by Stewart, Wheatley and Adlard, April 1827). To each front pastedown a small oval gilt bookplate of John, Earl of Clare. Below this in volume I only, a paper label reading 'From the collection of Charles Butler of Warren Wood, Hatfield' (his extensive library sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 1911-14). To each ffep, armourial bookplate of the Earl of Cromer. The bookplate is signed J.F. Badeley and dated 1912, suggesting as the owner Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917). The Discourses, or oral teachings, of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, compiled by his famous student Arrian and here edited by Johann Caspar Schweighauser (1742-1830), professor of Greek and Oriental Languages at Strassburg from 1778-1824. 'The celebrity of all preceding editions is eclipsed by the sagacity, erudition, and research displayed in this most excellent work by Professor Schweighauser.' (Dibdin). Contains: vol.I: Epicteti Dissertationes; vol.II. pt.i-ii: Notae in Epicteti Dissertationes; vol.III: Enchiridion, fragmenta, indices; vol.IV: Simplicii commentarius in Epicteti Enchiridion ex versione Latina Hieronymi Wolfii; vol.V: Enchiridii paraphrasis Christiana, cum Mer. Casauboni Latina versione. Nili Ascetae Manuale Epicteti, ad usum juvenum Christianorum adcommodatum. Epicteti Enchiridion Angelo Politiano interprete. Notae ad Simplicii comment; vol.VI: Epicteti Manuale et Cebetis Tabula. Bound as volume VI is the standalone, Epicteti Manvale et Cebetis tabvla Graece et Latine (1798). Dibdin I (4th edn.) 518. Ref: 54752show full image..
Epictetus; Cebes of Thebes: (Berkel, Abraham van, ed.:) Enchiridium una cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Graec. & Lat. cum notis Wolfii, Casauboni, Caselii & aliorum: Abrahamus Berkelius textum recensuit, & suas quoque addidit. Accedit Graeca Enchiridii Paraphrasis, Iacunis omnibus, codicis Medicei ope, ? Jocobo Gronovio Delphis Batavorum [Delft]: Gerardi de Jager, 1683. Second edition. 8vo., pp. [xxxii], 280 + impressive engraved folding plate by R. De Hooghe. Additional engraved title-page, woodcut device to printed title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Two-column parallel text in Greek and Latin. Closed tear to title-page through printer's details, very faint toning towards outer edges of margins but generally very clean. Vellum prize binding with certificate intact, spine gilt with title in ink, gilt borders, gilt centrepiece and corner pieces with arms of Amsterdam, edges sprinkled blue. A few faint smudgy marks, boards slightly splayed, ties lost, but still a very good copy overall. To ffep verso, ownership inscription possibly with the name Greve dated 1782. Prize certificate inscribed with the names Abr[aham] Quina a Tongeren and Jos. Theod. Schalbruch, dated 1702. Recommended by Dibdin as reputedly 'the best of the octavo variorum editions', combining the work of Berkel, Wolf, Casaubon and Caselius along with the notes and corrections of Gronovius. Dibdin I, 515 (for the Leiden/Amst. edition of 1670); Schweiger I, 106; Spoelder, 5. Ref: 54634
Epplett, Christopher: Gladiators and Beast Hunts: Arena Sports of Ancient Rome. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. xii, 196 + plates. Hardback: blue cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54347
Eusebius of Caesarea: Ecclesiasticae historiae: Eusebii Pamphili lib. X; eiusdem de vita Constantini lib. V; Socratis lib. VII; Theodoriti episcopi Cyrensis lib. V; collectaneorum ex historia eccles. Theodori Lectoris lib. II; Hermii Sozomeni lib. IX; Euagrii lib. VI. Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]: Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii, Regiis typis, 1544. Editio princeps. Folio, ff.[iv], 361 [misnumbered 353], 181, [v]. P5 blank as usual. Robert Estienne's basilisk device (B1) to title, device 10 on final leaf. Large engraved initials and head-pieces. Without ffep. Quite large repair to title-page but text unaffected, generally very clean and bright. Later simple dark brown calf, raised bands, single gilt tool to each compartment, double line gilt border to boards, edges sprinkled red. Lightly but comprehensively scuffed, loss to headcap, joints rubbed, corners bumped and one frayed, good. To front pastedown, a bookplate with coat of arms apparently of Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield (1811-1896), 'North Library' and the printed date 1860. Editio princeps, printed by Robert Estienne. Also in 1544 Estienne printed Eusebius's De evangelica praeparatione and De evangelica demostratione in the same stylish Greek typeface, Claude Garamond's 'Grec du roi'. Decorations and initials were designed by Geoffroy Tory. Dibdin describes this edition as a 'beautiful book', and observes that 'the first printed edition of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius was in the Latin tongue, from the version of Rufinus, and published by Ketelaer and De Leempt in 1474'. The volume contains sources for the history of the late antique period, written by Eusebius in the 320s. 'When Fran?ois I appointed Robert Estienne his new Printer in Greek, in 1542, he also commissioned Claude Garamond to cut a new Greek font intended specifically to be used to print Greek books from unpublished Greek manuscripts in the Royal Library at Fontainebleau. These new Royal Greek types, known as "grecs du roi", were based by Garamond on the script of the Cretan Angelo Vergecio, a well-known calligrapher in the employ of Fran?ois I. These cursive Greek types are universally acknowledged as the finest ever cut. The first text selected for printing in the first font of the Royal Greek types was the great "Ecclesiatical History" of Eusebius, from manuscripts in the Royal Library. The volume marks the first appearance of a full text in the first font of the "grecs du roi" and is the first major Greek text produced by Estienne as King's Printer in Greek. This is also the first book in which appear the splendid matching initials and headpieces, which are considered "among the best of the printed decorations used in the sixteenth century" (Updike).' (Schreiber, pp.76) Schreiber, 77; Dibdin I, 194-5. Ref: 55049show full image..
Eutropius: Breviarum Historiae Romanae. Accedunt Selectae lectiones dilucidando Auctori appositae. Parisiis [Paris]: Typis Josephi Barbou. 1754. 12mo., pp. [ii], xxviii, 221, [i]. Additional engraved frontispiece, engraved head- and tailpieces. Frontispiece and title a bit dusty, minimal foxing, margins of two leaves lightly waterstained, traces of small pasted paper slip on verso of last leaf. Contemporary crimson morocco, triple gilt ruled, spine triple gilt ruled, large gilt fleurons, gilt-lettered morocco label, small worm hole at foot, inner edges gilt, a.e.g. Joints expertly repaired, boards lightly rubbed. 18th century armorial bookplate of Louis des Champes des Tournelles to front pastedown, book label of Alfred Neild to ffep, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to flyleaf. An attractively-printed pocket edition of the abridged Roman history written by the 4th century historian Eutropius. This copy belonged to Louis des Champes des Tournelles (1744-95), a staunch Jacobin appointed French Minister of Finance in 1793. After Robespierre's abolition of ministries, he was imprisoned for defending too ardently his brother, later executed on the guillotine. Louis died of poisoning in 1795. Brunet II 1116. Ref: 53163show full image..
