FOULIS PRESS -- Quintus HORATIUS Flaccus (65-8 B.C.). [Opera], in Latin. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1756. Small 8 (154 x 93mm). Half-title. Contemporary ?Scottish dark blue morocco gilt, g.e. (upper joint slightly split). Provenance: Sir John Eden (armorial bookplate); [?Sir] William Eden (signature). Foulis' "Editio Tertia". Gaskell 320.

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FOULIS PRESS -- Quintus HORATIUS Flaccus (65-8 B.C.). [Opera], in Latin. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1756. Small 8 (154 x 93mm). Half-title. Contemporary ?Scottish dark blue morocco gilt, g.e. (upper joint slightly split). Provenance: Sir John Eden (armorial bookplate); [?Sir] William Eden (signature). Foulis' "Editio Tertia". Gaskell 320.

Quintus HORATIUS Flaccus (65-8 B.C.). [Opera] in Latin. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1760. Small 8 (153 x 94mm). Half-title. Contemporary ?Scottish red morocco gilt, g.e. (some discolouration, joints weak, spine chipped at head). Foulis's "Editio Quarta". Gaskell 383.

Caius SALLUSTIUS Crispus (86-34 B.C.). Opera. Glasgow: Andrew Foulis, 1777. 8 in 4s (185 x 112mm). Half-title. Contemporary ?Scottish red morocco gilt, g.e. Provenance: prize label (recipient deleted) signed by 'Jac. Barr.', dated 1781. Gaskell 627.

Marcus Annaeus LUCANUS (39-65). De bello civili libri decem. Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1751. Small 8 in 4s (155 x 96mm). Half-title. Contemporary French red morocco gilt, gilt patterned endpapers, g.e. Gaskell ?197 (unseen listed under "Pharsalia").

Publius VERGILIUS Maro, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Bucolica, Georgica, et Aenis. Edinburgh: G.Hamilton and J.Balfour, 1743. Small 8 in 4s (157 x 95mm). Contemporary dark blue Scottish morocco gilt, single fillet and roll tool border enclosing a central lozenge containing various symmetrically placed small tools, spine in six compartments with raised bands, brown morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with repeat pattern of small tools, g.e. (light rubbing to joints).
Marcus Tullius CICERO (106-43 B.C.). Opera. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1748-1749. Vols.I-XIX only (of 20), 12 (130 x 75mm). Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (occasional small splits to the joints). Provenance: Lt. General A. Adams (bookplates, inscription in vol.I noting the gift of the set in 1785). Gaskell 101; and seven other works in twenty-one volumes (Anacreon and others. [Odes,] in Greek, Glasgow: 1783, sm. 8 in 4s [Gaskell 653]; Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. [Meditations,] in Greek and Latin, Glasgow: 1744, small 8 in 4s [Gaskell 44]; Theocritus. [Works], in Greek, Glasgow: 1746, foolscap 8 in fours [Gaskell 78]; Plautus. Comoediae, Glasgow: 1763, small 8 [Gaskell 424]; C. Plinius Secundus. Opera, Glasgow: 1751, small 4 [Gaskell 207]; Aeschylus. Tragoediae, Glasgow: 1806, 2 vols., 8; Xenophon. [Opera], Glasgow: 1762, 8 [Gaskell 413]; Xenophon. [Opera], Glasgow: 1764, 8 [Gaskell 435]; Xenophon. [Opera], Glasgow: 1767, 8 [Gaskell 472]). (45)

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