AULI FLACCI PERSII, D. JUVENALIS ET SULPICIÆ SATYRARUM. Nova Editio diligenter recognita

Paris J, Barbou, 1776. 8vo., full crushed mottled brown morocco with a triple gilt fillet border on both covers with tiny gilt flower heads in the corners; smooth spine with elaborate gilt decoration and two red morocco title labels. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. An elegant English 19th century binding in ABSOLUTELY FINE CONDITION.There is a separate title-page [35] for the Satires of Juvenal along with a second engraved frontispiece [not in the collation], also by Duflos, who engraved the frontispiece opposite the main title. The pagination (truncated) of the two works is continuous. Several head and tail-pieces which look especially fine on the BLUE TINTED PAPER.Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62) was a Roman satiric poet, a friend of Lucan and much influenced by Horace. He is the author of six satires which expounded the tenets of Stoicism. Decimus Junius Juvenalis (60?-?140) was a satirist of Roman vices under the Empire. He is the author of sixteen satires, divided, as here, in five books, and include biting attacks on public manners and morals. Barbou was known for his fine printing of other classic authors; this is the first copy of his work on blue paper we have seen. There is no auction record for this work on either white or blue paper for the past 25 years. PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER BY BARBOU (Inventory #: 675.1776)