8vo. iv, [2], 1-2, 7-148pp, 96pp only [i.e. sections of Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod and Theocritus excepted from the larger collection in both Greek and Latin, the former interleaved with blanks but lacking two printed leaves of the Odyssey]. Contemporary vellum, lettered in manuscript to spine. Marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed and marked, text occasionally spotted. Bookplate of James Stewart to FEP, ink inscription to verso of FFEP, and 'E Libris John Arthur Lloyd. Harrow 1807' Interleaving extensively annotated in Lloyd's hand to the sections of Hesiod and Theocritus.

A deliberately excerpted part of the polyglot Etonian schoolbook of Greek poetry studied and comprehensively annotated in both Latin and Greek, with extensive references to other classical works, including most notably the Latin poets Horace, Ovid, and Virgil.

This copy has a rather interesting provenance: being used at Eton's greatest public school rival by the Harrovian John Arthur Lloyd, who was famously the Captain of a Harrow cricket XI in 1805 on the occasion of the first match against Eton. This team included Lord Byron, who scored only 9 runs in two innings and took a single wicket, and on whom the former commented '[he] should never have been in the eleven if my counsel had been taken'. Lloyd was later elected a member of the Roxburghe Club.