A biographical history of Guy's Hospital / by Samuel Wilks and G.T. Bettany.

  • Wilks, Samuel, Sir, 1824-1911.
Date:
1892
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    each book or eclogue ; and there are three sets of pagination, or three vohimes in one, though not so styled. The dedication is curious: To the Illustrious and High-born Princess, the Lady Mary, Eldest Daughter to His Royal Highness James, Duke of York : This Elaborate Translation of the Prince of Latin Poets, Virgil, adorned with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations; In all ages worthily esteemed the Equal Standard of Vu'tue and Honour : Is most humbly Presented, Dedicated, and Devoted, By Her Highness most Humble and Obedient Servant, John Ogilby. There are two copies of this edition in the Bodleian, and one at Canterbury. A somewhat more interesting edition is one without date, but probably later than the foregoing. It is a small octavo 7 in. x 4g x \\ in., with an engraved title-page, having in the centre a bust of Virgil crowned with laurel leaves. At the foot, in one line, is the imprint: Sold by Tho: Guy at y'' Oxford Arms on y^ west side of the Royall Exchange. The general design shows Jupiter crowned, with his eagle, in the centre; Juno on liis left, and Venus (with Cupid) as mother of ^neas, on the i-ight. Below we see the Straits of Messina, and j3^]neas's fleet, of which one ship has foundered. At the left a great battle is taldng place. In this edition, which has only 403 pages, there are copious marginal and foot notes to the verse tiunslation, crowihng the page inconveniently. There are thirty-two engraved plates, veiy crude and conventional, ten belonging to the Bucolics, ten to the Georgics, and twelve to the ^neid. The sixth edition of Coles's English-Latin and Latin-Euglish Dictionary (at Canterbury), 1707, printed by F. C. for Tho. Guy, has a very full and interesting title-page, and an addi-ess by the Bookseller at the end of the pi-eface as follows : This book hath sufficiently commended itself to the world by the sale of almost 4,000 in less than two years' time : and the following advertisement: *• Lately published by the same author, and sold by Peter Parker, an English Dictionary (as above), NomencLitura Trilinguia—Angio- Latino-Grseca : or a shoi-t vocabulary, English, Latin, and Greek, with a collection of Proverbs, also Examples of the 5 Declensions, and for declining Greek nouns Latinized. To which is added in this 6th Edition, Terms used in Rhetorick. The like for young beginners never before Printed. Pi-ice \()d. Sold by T. Guy, P. Parker, A, Churchill, and G. Conyers. Colloquia Trihnguia—Eng., Lat., Gr. Being FamiHar Forms fit to bind with the Nomenclatara.