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First Edition. The frontispiece illustrated with a classical image of Juvenal executed in copperplate, additional engraved portrait plate of Stapylton, and with finely engraved folio plates depicting classical images at the beginning of each of the Satyrs with an additional plate to the Figura Prima prior to the first Satyr, finely engraved head-pieces and large historiated initials throughout. The plates are by Wenceslaus Hollar after Robert Streeter; the engraved portrait of Stapylton by Pierre Lombart; the 16 etched plates are by Hollar after Streeter, Johan Dankers, and Francis Barlow. Each has an explanatory leaf. Large Folio, 15" x 10.5", contemporary calf over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with raised bands over cords gilt ruled, compartments of the spine with central gilt tooling, one compartment lettered in gilt. [24], 522, [2], [26] pp. A very well preserved copy, the plates and text-block crisp and clean and unpressed, the binding secure, tight and strong and in pleasing condition.