Bucolica, Georgica, Et Aeneis, Editio Stereotypa Herhan

Paris: D'Adrien Herhan, 1816. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 16mo. 403 pages. A small book measuring 5 3/8 inches tall by just under 3 1/2 inches wide. Hardcover bound in black 3/4 leather with marbled paper covered boards. Binding shows moderate wear but is generally quite sound and fairly attractive. Marbled endpapers. Early owner's name of "Henry A. Worcester" on the second front flyleaf. The fore edge of the first page of text appears torn away (binding / printing error?) with loss of some letters at the edge. Text is toned and a bit foxed. The language is Latin. Henry A. Worcester appears to be Henry Aiken Worcester (1802-1841) who was a graduate from Yale (1828) and was a Swedenborgian minister. He was also brother to Joseph Emerson Worcester, the American Lexicographer whose Dictionary was in strong competeition with that of Noah Webster. (Worcester's Dictionary was more aligned to that of Samuel Johnson, and Noah Webster's Dictionary was more "American." In the mid-19th Century many writers preferred the Worcester Dictionary while the public found favor with Webster's, and thus was the "Dictionary Wars" of the mid-19th Century, which ended upon Joseph Worcester's death in 1865).