16mo. [16], 546pp, [12]. With an engraved title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Heavily rubbed, joints split, loss to foot of spine, without lettering-piece. Hinges exposed, without FFEP, very occasional chipping to margins. Armorial bookplate of T. Gaisford to FEP

A continental edition of Scottish humanist historian George Buchanan’s (1506-1582) complete poetical works, including his Latin version of the Psalms.

Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), classical scholar and dean of Christ Church, Oxford.