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EURIPIDES. Bacchae. In usum studiosae juventutis recensuit et illustravit Petrus Elmsley, 1822, 8°, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES COPY WITH HIS NOTES, and his ownership inscription to verso of front endpaper, interleaved (lightly spotted), contemporary half calf (extremities very rubbed), bookplate of Robert, Earl of Crewe -- T. J. MATHIAS. Poemata latina scripta vario metro variis annis, Naples: printed privately, 1832, small 8°, small paper clip mounted to title, inscribed: "Ex dono auctoris" and with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM THE AUTHOR to Mr Stewart, bound in at the front, stating: "I have lately printed privately a few copies of this little volume ... at the end of which you will find a letter I had the pleasure of addressing to your brother Thomas from Sorrento...", contemporary blue roan with Lord Houghton's crest to front cover. With 41 other volumes of classical texts in Latin, Greek or their English translation, all 19th century, including an English translation of The First Book of Horace's Satires (inscribed by the translator F. Howes, Norwich, 1842). (43)