Quarto. In two parts. [7], xxv, 444; [8], 87pp, [1]. With two engraved plates. The second part has a separate title page reading: 'Phaedri Augusti liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque...Cantabrigiae apud Cornelium Crownfield'. Handsomely bound in contemporary calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, gilt supralibros to both boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to recto of front blank fly-leaf, earlier inked inscription to verso: 'Edwin Ellis Coleridge - a gift / from his Tutor on leaving Eton / Oct. 7th 1821'.

A generously margined copy of a Canterbury-printed edition of the surviving theatrical comedies of North African playwright of the Roman Republic Publius Terentius Afer (c.195/185-c.159 BCE), together with Roman fabulist Phaedrus' (c. 15 BC - c. AD 50), Latinisation in iambic metre of the Greek prose Aesopic tales; both annotated by philologist Richard Bentley (1662-1742).

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

Edwin Ellis Coleridge (1803-1870), Church of England clergyman, sometime vicar of Buckerell, Devon.