DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS, AND AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS TRANSLATED & ILLUSTRATED, AS WELL WITH SCULPTURE AS NOTES. Juvenal (D. Junius Juvenalis) & Aulus Persius Flaccus Antiquarian

Copperplates (48+3 folding) though unsigned are by David Loggan. Small folio (280x188mm) original calf with rules, raised bands & early hand-lettered paper label [12]+341pp with VERTICAL TITLE on XX4 verso. One leaf loose, p90 mis-labled as p75. Handsome plates from DuChoul & Mercuralis "De Arte Gymnastica" (Wing 1276 Madan 2979). Clean tight crisp copy. *Best known as an author & poet, Holyday was appointed Archdeacon of Oxford by the new king Charles I in 1626. Referenced by: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), Madan III, 2979. 1 volume.