8vo. In two volumes. xxiv, [2], 240; [4], 270pp, [2]. With half-titles and a terminal leaf of errata to Vol. II. Contemporary gilt-ruled straight-grain navy morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, tickets of Henry Sotheran and Co. to FEPs, internally clean and crisp.

An elegantly printed edition of the only surviving work of Roman statesman and orator Silius Italicus, Punica, a verse narrative of the Second Punic War; edited by an eighteen-year-old bibliophile Richard Heber (1773-1833), formed on the editions of Drakenborch and Villebrune.