[Lear, Edward.] Flavius Josephus.
The Jewish War of Flavius Josephus: a new translation by the late Rev. Robert Traill ... Edited, with notes, by Isaac Taylor.
London: Houlston & Stoneman, 1851.
Large 8vo. pp. xii, 258, lxiv; iv, [xiii]-xvi, [v]-xi, 252, lxv-cxciii, [15, index], [3, list of plates]; 77 eng. plates of views, portraits and plans; very good in the original cloth, gilt, sometime expertly rebacked with original spines laid down, bumped to corners. Edward Lear’s copy, with his inscription to each title-page dated 1858.
Lear had spent the years 1854-6 in Corfu and Greece, returning to London in 1857. Later that year he visited Corfu, Egypt and Palestine, and for the winter went to Rome. It was during his stay there in 1858-9 that he would have purchased the present volumes.
£550
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