8vo. [12], 325pp, [21]. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, later red paper label with title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, corners exposed. Pastedowns sprung, early manuscript bibliographical note to FEP, scattered spotting.

A mid-eighteenth century Oxford-printed edition of of Italian Jesuit historian and moralist Famiano Strada's (1572-1649) commentaries on classical literature. First published at Rome in 1617, the first English edition appeared in 1631.