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Author: [Virgil] Vergilius Maro, Publius: (Hunter, John, ed.:)

Title: Opera: ad Lectiones Probatiores Diligenter Emendata, et Interpuctione Nova Saepius Illustrata [?].

Publication: Cupri Fifanorum [Cupar, Fife]: R. Tullis, Academiae Andreanae Typographus, Londini, apud Whyte et Fi (1810).

Description: 2 vols. 8vo., pp. xviii, 227, [i]; [ii], 253, [i]. A little light foxing, some slight dusty marks. Contemporary brown calf, attractive gilt spine, blind tooling to joints, marbled edges and endpapers. Endcaps and joints a bit worn, upper joint vol.I just starting, some stains and scuffs, corners frayed, still very good. To each front pastedown an armourial bookplate; to initial blank vol.I, 'E.I.H., 1821 May'. We believe this to be Edward Isaac Hobhouse (1804-1854), the bookplate showing Hobhouse arms impaling those of his wife, Hester Charlotte, whom he married in 1832. Edward was the half-brother of John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869), the English Radical politician and great friend and travelling companion of Lord Byron. During John's extremely brief period as Chief Secretary for Ireland he appointed Edward as his private secretary. An interesting scrap of Edward's adolescence is preserved in the National Library of Scotland in the form of an 1819 letter from Henry Drury, master of Harrow School, to Edward's father Sir Benjamin Hobhouse about his unruly son (Item Reference: MS.42303). Drury complains about the boy's behaviour, in particular an incident of letting off fireworks in the house, and "a determined defiance of all authority". As a result, Drury recommends that Edward is removed from the school and given a private tutor, before he is inevitably "publicly expelled".

A later edition by Robert Tullis of Dr John Hunter's much acclaimed text, which had first appeared in 1799. Tullis took inspiration from the Foulis Press and as such his editions were noted for the elegance of their typesetting.

Bibliography: See Dibdin (4th edn.) II, 564 for the 1799 appearance of Hunter's edition. Also referenced by: "The Tullis press Cupar, 1803-1849," by D.W. Doughty, Abertay Historical Society Publication 12 (1967), no. 20.

Reference Number: [54905]

Price: £140

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	Author: [Virgil] Vergilius Maro, Publius: (Hunter, John, ed.:) Title: Opera: ad Lectiones Probatiores Diligenter Emendata, et Interpuctione Nova Saepius Illustrata [?]. Publication: Cupri Fifanorum [Cupar, Fife]: R. Tullis, Academiae Andreanae Typographus, Londini, apud Whyte et Fi (1810). Description: 2 vols. 8vo., pp. xviii, 227, [i]; [ii], 253, [i]. A little light foxing, some slight dusty marks. Contemporary brown calf, attractive gilt spine, blind tooling to joints, marbled edges and endpapers. Endcaps and joints a bit worn, upper joint vol.I just starting, some stains and scuffs, corners frayed, still very good. To each front pastedown an armourial bookplate; to initial blank vol.I, 'E.I.H., 1821 May'. We believe this to be Edward Isaac Hobhouse (1804-1854), the bookplate showing Hobhouse arms impaling those of his wife, Hester Charlotte, whom he married in 1832. Edward was the half-brother of John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869), the English Radical politician and great friend and travelling companion of Lord Byron. During John's extremely brief period as Chief Secretary for Ireland he appointed Edward as his private secretary. An interesting scrap of Edward's adolescence is preserved in the National Library of Scotland in the form of an 1819 letter from Henry Drury, master of Harrow School, to Edward's father Sir Benjamin Hobhouse about his unruly son (Item Reference: MS.42303). Drury complains about the boy's behaviour, in particular an incident of letting off fireworks in the house, and "a determined defiance of all authority". As a result, Drury recommends that Edward is removed from the school and given a private tutor, before he is inevitably "publicly expelled". A later edition by Robert Tullis of Dr John Hunter's much acclaimed text, which had first appeared in 1799. Tullis took inspiration from the Foulis Press and as such his editions were noted for the elegance of their typesetting. Bibliography: See Dibdin (4th edn.) II, 564 for the 1799 appearance of Hunter's edition. Also referenced by: "The Tullis press Cupar, 1803-1849," by D.W. Doughty, Abertay Historical Society Publication 12 (1967), no. 20. Reference Number: [54905] Price: £140 enquire << Back
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