Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Medici Society label on front of dw. Prize inscription on front pastedown. Top edge gilt. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Highly uncommon with the dust wrapper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 290 pages; Physical description: [10], 290, [2]p ; 25 cm. Subjects: Latin poetry -- Latin literauture -- Classical literature -- Early works to 1800. Notes: Half-title page with printer's device, Riccardi Press. On the verso of the first leaf ". editionis excudebantur papyro exempla M, XVI pelle vitulina-quorum XV veneunt. Huius papyri numerus 770." ". typis Riccardi a Carolo T. Jacobi novissime excusi. Impensis Mediceae Societatis,Librario Philip H. Lee Warner, Londini, in vico dicto Albermarle Street XXXVIII --- MDCCCCX." --colophon. 1 Kg.