The binding is probably London work but considering the provenance may possibly be Irish.
Edited by Arnold Heinrich Westerhovius, Friedrich Adolf Ebert described this edition as “an edition certainly much sought after, but still unsatisfactory. Westerhovius made use of many MSS. And the best editions, without however doing anything for the criticism of the text, or contributing any thing of his own for its elucidation. His merit is almost wholly confined to an industrious collection of theapparatus up to that period, and yet he has nothing from Hare and Bentley.” (A General Bibliographical Dictionary, 1814, no. 22519).
Provenance: 1: From an unidentified pre-War Irish house auction by Battersby & Co., of Dublin, with the lot number “246” on a tag attached by string to vol. 1. A preliminary lot number “533/6” is faintly written in chalk on both front covers (largely erased). Old pencil price “4 v £10”
