Author: [Martial] Martialis, Marcus Valerius: (Hay, William, ed.:)

Title: Epigrammata Selecta [?] Select epigrams of Martial. Translated and imitated by William Hay, Esq; with an appendix of some by Cowley, and other hands.

Publication: London: printed for R. And J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, 1755. 1755.

Description: 12mo., pp. [xii], 139 (i.e. 239), [xxv]. Parallel Latin and English texts. Two final leaves of advertisements. A little toned, very good. Contemporary brown calf, gilt spine with label, gilt borders to boards edges sprinkled red. Bookplate to front pastedown, initials S and B twined together by a rope ampersand, beneath the coronet of an earl.

William Hay (1695?1755) was a writer and Whig politician, sitting in the Commons from 1734 to 1755. The 'Advertisement' preceding the text notes that his edition was also available in an English-only 8vo. volume, 'that they may not be encumbered with the Latin, who do not understand it.'

Bibliography: ESTC T94257

Reference Number: [54216]

Price: £125

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