1801 2 Vol Letters of Junius Stat Nominis Umbra

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1801 2 Vol Letters of Junius Stat Nominis Umbra:
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Junius

Stat Nominis Umbra

By Junius

1801 - London - Vernor and Hood

9\" by 6\"; (xxxi) 274pp.; (v) 318pp.

DETAILS

A nineteenth century set of the letters of Junius.

Complete in two volumes.

With a portrait frontispiece in each, and a number of plates and vignette illustrations throughout.

Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the Public Advertiser, from 21 January 1769 to 21 January 1772.

The name may have been chosen because the same author had already signed Lucius and Brutus, and wished to exhaust the name of Lucius Junius Brutus, the Roman patriot. Alternatively, the name may have been derived from the Roman poet Juvenal, who was thought also to have had the nomen Junius. Some say that the author of the Junius letters had previously written under numerous other pseudonyms, and that he continued to do so, under different pseudonyms, after the 36-month period (January 1769 – January 1772) in which the Junius letters were published.

CONDITION

In calf bindings with gilt detailing to the spines. Externally, rubbed with some loss to the extremities and spine. Both boards are detached on Volume I, and the front board is detached on Volume II, with the rear joint failing. Internally, both are generally firmly bound although a little strained in places, with the endpapers loosening. The pages are generally clean with scattered spotting and handling marks, and minor age toning;with loss to the margins of some pages in Volume I, not affecting the text. Both volumes have offsetting to the endpapers from the frontispiece, and a personal ink copperplate inscription to the verso of the frontispiece. Overall: POOR.

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