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(Grenville,W.W.).
Nugae metricae. (Oxford, Privatdruck) 1824. Gr.4°. 2 Bl., 89 S., 3 S. Hldr. d. Zt. (Beschabt, etw. best.).
Lowndes II, 942. - William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville (1759-1834) served as Foreign Secretary in William Pitt's cabinet and headed the Ministry of All the Talents in 1806-07. The translations in this volume demonstrate the skill of an Oxford-educated aristocrat at translating from English, Italian or Greek into appropriate Latin verse (Grenville had won the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse at Oxford University in 1779). - Ohne das Portrait. Unaufgeschn. Ex., leicht stockfleckig, hs. Eintr. a.V. - Seltener Privatdruck in kleiner Aufl.
