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London: B.R. Howlette / John Murray, 1813. Second edition. Good. 8vo. [2], 130 pp. Printed in Greek throughout on fine paper. Contemporary English red diced russia calf (rubbed and worn), tooled in blind, outer frame of gilt palmette rolls, all edges gilt, drab endpapers. Front endpaper waterstained; second blank leaf with paper flaw; outer margins of final pages darkened from turn-ins. With faults, and priced accordingly. THE ONLY KNOWN ILLUSTRATIONS BY MRS. LAVINIA FORSTER. Our copy bears learned MS annotations in Greek and Latin. Beautifully printed in a Greek font created especially for William Bulmer by William Martin. Dibdin described the 1802 first edition as an "elegant work [that] confers great credit on the printer." Our copy belongs to the second edition, which was printed in the same Greek font, and retains the 20 fine engraved head- and tailpiece vignettes designed by Lavinia Banks Forster (1774-1858), wife of the present editor Edward Foster. Two of the vignettes are signed (in…
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[WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR, 1802]. Anacreontis Odaria ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata
by Anacreon. Forster, Edward (editor). Forster, Lavinia Banks (illustrator)
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