1846-89 Bohn's Library

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

From the 'Bohn's Library' series inaugurated by Henry George Bohn in 1846. These targeted mass markets and comprise editions of standard works and translations concerned with history, science, classics, theology, and archaeology. First editions in the series.

The complete series consists of 766 volumes. 

A popular and successful work due to the volumes selling at low prices and their lack of literary pretensions.

The series was published by Bohn's Libraries until 1865, when it was sold to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons.

The present comprised with the following:

From Bohn's Classica Library:

1851 'The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis, and Halieutico of Ovid' translated and edited by Henry T Riley. No half title. Publisher's advertisements to endpapers. 

1851 'Lucretius on the Nature of Things' translated by John Selby Watson. No half title, advertising leaves to front and rear.

1853 'The Idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus' translated and edited by J Banks and J M Chapman. No half title. With advertising leaves to front and rear. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece. 

1865 'The Iliad of Homer,' translated by Alexander Pope, edited by J S Watson. The first edition in the series. Illustrated with the entire series of Flaxman's Designs. Collated with all thirty-nine plates. Bound without half title. Numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1876 'The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis' translated and edited by J Banks. Complete with half title and numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1876 'The Treatises of MT Cicero' translated and edited by C D Yonge. Complete with half title and numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1876 'The Politics and Economics of Aristotle,' translated and edited by Edward Walford. Complete with half title and numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1880 'The Anabasis, or Expedition of Cyrus and the Memorabilia of Socrates' translated from the Greek of Xenophon by JS Warson. No half title. Illustrated with a frontispiece. With publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1889 'The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius' translated into English prose from the text of R Merkel, by Edward P Coleridge. Complete with half title. Photograph pasted to rear pastedown.


From Bohn's Antiquarian Library: 

1848 'Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances' by George Ellis. A new edition revised by J O Halliwell. Illustrated with a frontispiece. With half title as well as publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear. 

1849-54 'Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain' by John Brand. A new edition. Vols I and II of three only. With frontispieces. No half titles. Advertisements to front and rear vol II.

1850 'The Fairy Mythology' by Thomas Keightley. A new edition, revised and enlarged. No half title. With publisher's catalogue and advertising leaves to front and rear. With engraved frontispiece. 

1853 'The Annals of Roger de Hoveden,' translated by Henry T Riley. In two volumes. No half title. With advertising leaves to front and rear. 

1853 'The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon' translated and edited by Thomas Forester. Complete with half title, publisher's advertisements to front and rear, and engraved frontispiece. 

1854 'Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland,' translted by Henry T Riley. Complete with half title as well as publisher's catalogue and advertising leaves to front and rear.


From Bohn's Illustrated History:

1854 'The Natural History of Selborne' by Gilbert White, edited by Sir William Jardine and Edward Jesse. No half title. With publisher's advertisements to front and rear. Collated with all forty engravings.


Bohn's Extra Volume: 

1846 'Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second' by Count Grammont. Edited by Sir Walter Scott. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece. Collated, bound without any further illustrations. Publisher's catalogue to rear. 


From Bogue's European Library:

1865 'Life of Lorenzo de Medici' by William Roscoe. With half title. Engraved frontispiece.