Elzevier

pp. (24), 348, (21). Handsome engraved title page by Decker. Fine woodcut initials and devices. All edges gold. 24mo. [127 x 72 mm]. Early 19th century English full crimson leather binding, modestly gold gilt, in the style of Sir John Thorold's Syston Park Library books. Engraved Ex Libris of Sir John Trollope, M.P. (1800-1874), who owned the hamlet of Ashton and was a book collector. The Trollopes were related to the great book collecting Thorold family, and probably used their binder for this book. Frontinus was the Roman Military Governor in Britain, and later, the superintendent of the water works at Rome. this book was bought from Maggs in 1977 by Edwin Wolf II, famed for his connections to the great bookseller Rosenbach and the Library Company of Philadelphia. This is a fine, Elzevier-like edition of this important treatise on the stratagems of war. Fine and scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 1