[LUCRETIUS, CARUS (TITUS); GOOD, John Mason (translator)]. The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem, Translated From the Latin ... Accompanied With the Original Text, and Illustrated With Notes Philological and Explanatory. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805.
FIRST EDITION THUS. In two volumes; leather-bound; hardcover; quarto (27.5 x 21 cm); pp. cxxxiii, [1], 537; [4], 647, [1] errata. Dual English and Latin text. Bound in contemporary marbled calf; centre of each board with gilt embossed armorial of The Society of Writers to the Signet; smooth spines gilt; engraved frontispiece to each volume; marbled endpapers with later cloth hinges; printed footnotes; general index in double columns. Printed by Strahan and Preston, London. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and secure, rebacked retaining the original boards, the corners worn and showing. Interiors well-preserved with some very light toning and occasional pencil annotations. Scarce.
Notes: An wonderful dual language edition, with extensive notes provided by John Mason Good.
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