De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex; Ad Exemplar Gilberti Wakefield, A.B. Cum Ejusdem Notis, Commentariis, Indicibus, Fideliter Excusi.

LUCRETIUS; WAKEFIELD, Gilbert (1756-1801).

Verlag: Bell & Bradfute, 1813., Glasgow:, 1813

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4 volumes bound as 2. Thick 8vo. [8], xxxix, [3], 387, [1]; [2], vii, [3], 415, [1]; [2], vii, [3], 404, [4]; [2], 468 pp. [NOTE: vol. 4 pagination omits pp. 403-404 as indicated by Gordon (save Gordon states "406" presumably in error â Â" to be clear [405-406 is a half-title printed on both sides without pagination]. Some marginal stains. Original full vellum; covers bowed. Early ownership markings of the University of Glasgow Library (withdrawn). Bookplate of James Bonar. Very good. Gilbert Wakefield was an English classicist and Dissenter, who taught at numerous dissentingon academies including the Warrington Academy. "Among the minor lights of the age was Gilbert Wakefield, a Fellow of Jesus Colege, Cambridge, who had attained the second place in the Wranglers; the Chancellor's Medallists and the Members' Prizemen of his Year. On leaving the Church of England for the Unitarian body, he became a classical teacher and editor at Nottingham. . . . In his Lucretius (1796) he aimed at producing a text founded on manuscript authority alone" â Â" Sandys, v. II, p. 430. PROVENANCE: James Bonar (1852-1941) was a Scottish political economist and economic historian. A member of the Austrian school, he wrote extensively on Thomas Robert Malthus. Gordon, Bibliography of Lucretius, 115B. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PW1462

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Titel: De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex; Ad Exemplar ...

Verlag: Bell & Bradfute, 1813., Glasgow:

Erscheinungsdatum: 1813