[Variorum]. [...] cum selectis variorum observat: et nova recensione A.Thysii Icti. by Valerius Maximus

Lugd. Batavorum [Leyden]: ex officina Hackiana, 1670. 8vo. pp. (xvi), 844, (xxxii), including the engraved titlepage, woodcut initials and ornaments. Light water stain to upper blank margin, titlepage dusty, strengthened on verso to outer margin, slight age yellowing. 18th-century English full calf, blind-tooled, raised bands, spine gilt ruled, gilt-lettered morocco label. Very small hole at foot of spine, lower edges a bit rubbed. 19th-century bookplate of Cholmondeley Library to front pastedown. Dibdin says of this: 'Best variorum edition... It is elegantly printed by Hackius, and was superintended by Thysius... It is now a scarce book'. An elegantly-bound copy of this fascinating work with hundreds of stories and anecdotes, with moralistic and educational undertones, on the life of the ancient Romans; a few stories at the end are instead set in ancient Greece. This copy was in the library of Reginald Cholmondeley (1826-96) of Condover Hall. There he famously hosted Mark Twain upon his visit to England in 1873 and 1879. The library was sold by Reginald's successors in 1926. Dibdin II, 522.