16mo. [3], vi-viii, 283pp, [1]. Without half-title. Contemporary blind- tooled red half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaf, burn-mark to head of latter half of text-block, primarily confined to margins, though touching text in places with some loss of sense.

A diminutive Continental edition of the elegiac poetry of Propertius, edited by German Protestant theologian Christian Gottlieb Kühnöl (1768-1841) and French philologist and sometime curator of the Mazarine library Jean-Augustin Amar Du Rivier (1765-1837).

John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), nephew of the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, judge, and sometime editor of the Quarterly Review.