Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University; and sold by W. Thurlbourn and T. Merrill; J. Whiston, R. Dodsley, and M. Cooper; J. Fletcher; and J. Hildyard, 1750. First Edition. 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. viii, [1] contents, [1 blank], 398 pp. + 16 pp. index. Text in English, with notes in English, Latin & Greek. Contempoary brown calf, with five raised spine bands & four compartments, ornamented in gilt, tiled in gilt on leather spine label. Very good. Heavy edgewear; endpapers excised. Small, unobtrusive previous ownership signature in contemporary hand on title page. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright. Zeuxian Society (Caldwell Institute) bookplate to front pastedown, with the motto nunc adbibe puro pectore verba (Hor. Ep. 1.2.67 'now drink up words with a bright, undefiled mind'). The Caldwell Institute, named after Joseph Caldwell, the first president of the University of North Carolina, was a short-lived, early 19th-century Presbyterian school in North Carolina designed to provide a classical education imbued with Christian principles.

Cambridge churchman Thomas Chapman's first and only book. Chapman was a master of Magdalen College. A rather scarce title.

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