Cory William — Lucretilis

Cambridge, Rampant Lions Press, 1951. Cloth. A very scarce limited edition of William Johnson Cory"s Lucretilis, a Latin verse meditation on nature and scholarship. Bound in the original brown quarter cloth binding, with marbled paper boards.A very scarce, limited edition of this work, being number one hundred and nine of one hundred and seventy five copies printed.Lucretilis takes its title from a mountain near Horace"s Sabine villa. Written in Latin verse, this copy offers meditations on nature and scholarship. William Johnson Cory (1823–1892) was a British poet and educator, best remembered for his verse collection Ionica and his long tenure at Eton, where he inspired generations of pupils.With errata slip laid in. Bound in the original quarter cloth binding, with marbled paper boards. Externally, lovely, with the slightest shelf wear to extremities. Very slight offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with just one or two spots to last few leaves and one or two very minor handling marks. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .