Various works contained in eight volumes…
Various works: Omnes, qui ad artem Oratorium pertinent, Libri, 3 vols, Oxford, 1718; De Nature Deorum, Cambridge, 1718; De Divinatione et de Fato, Cambridge, 1721; Tusculanae Disputationes, Cambridge, 1723; Academica, Cambridge, 1725; De Legibus, Cambridge, 1727.
Cambridge and Oxford: various publishers, 1718-1727.
Eight separately published works, octavo, bound as a most handsome set in English red morocco, spines gilt in compartments and lettered with name of the work, the editor's name and the place and date of publication, the bindings by Charles Lewis.
Drury's set, bound for him by Lewis in English red morocco
A fine set of works by Cicero, assembled by the collector Henry Drury, uniformly bund for him, each work collated by him with his typically neat note, in slightly differing words in each volume, "Charta maxima" [i.e. Large Paper]", dated at Harrow in 1819. In one volume Drury notes that they were acquired "from Mr Williams's collection, at Hendon". In each volume he identifies its binding as being by Lewis, that is the famous English binder Charles Lewis, who worked from 1807.
A fine set of works by Cicero, assembled by the collector Henry Drury, uniformly bund for him, each work collated by him with his typically neat note, in slightly differing words in each volume, "Charta maxima" [i.e. Large Paper]", dated at Harrow in 1819. In one volume Drury notes that they were acquired "from Mr Williams's collection, at Hendon". In each volume he identifies its binding as being by Lewis, that is the famous English binder Charles Lewis, who worked from 1807.
Henry Joseph Thomas Drury (1778-1841) ws a fellow of King's College, Cambridge from 1799 to 1808, thereafter Under Master and then Master of the Lower School at his alma mater Harrow. He had a great reputation as a classical scholar, ws an original member of the Roxburghe Club, and memorialised as Menalcus in Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron. His formidable library of Greek and Latin classics was dispersed in 4729 lots over 23 days in February and March 1827.
At Drury's sale in 1827 they were bought by an unknown collector whose note tipped into one volume reads "H. Drury's Sale 23 February 1827. Cicero 8 vo. Ch. Mxma. L11.6.0. Nos. 861, 871, 72, 73, 74, 75. Bound by Cha. Lewis".
The sale catalogue entries for those lots are as follows:
861 Ciceronis Omnes, qui ad artem Oratorium pertinent, Libri, ed. J. Proust, 3 vols, Oxford, 1718
871 Ciceronis Tusculanae Disputationes Libri V, ed. Davis, Cambridge, 1723
872 Cicero de Divinatione et de Fato, ed. Davis, Cambridge, 1721
873 Ciceronis Academica, ed. Davis, Cambridge, 1725
874 Cicero de Nature Deorum, ed. Davis & Walker, Cambridge, 1718
875 Cicero de Legibus, ed. Davis, Cambridge 1727
The first, three-volume, work was edited by J. Proust, while the others were all edited by Davis.
Provenance: Henry Drury, with his notes in each volume.
A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library of the Rev. Henry Drury... Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans... on... February 19. And eleven following days; and... March 12, and ten following days (Sundays excepted). 1827, lots 861 and 871-75.
Price (AUD): $2,750.00
US$1,828.30 Other currencies