Written in a round humanistic script with white-vine decorated initials. Title from incipit. Author inscription by Sydney Cockerell on front flyleaf. Bound in 19th-cent. English olive morocco with embossed coat of arms (per pale: 1, a cross between four roundels; 2, a chevron between three demy vols; Nanfant family?), lettered "Carpe diem " by Charles Lewis. In a protective tray case, 21 cm. Belonged to Philip Augustus Hanrott; his sale, London, 1833, I, no. 1418, to H. Bohn; John Alfred Wigan coll.; Henry G. Bohn; his sale, London, 1870, II, no. 8819, to Quaritch; bookplate of William Morris; his sale, London, 1898, no. 71, to Leighton; Preston A. Perry; his sale, New York, 1908, no. 271, purchased by Charles E. Norton (signed and dated on front flyleaf). Purchased with funds from Friends of the Library, 1908.
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