2-652-025 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Translator Presenting His Book to the Duke of Norfolk.', c1500-1520, 1923. Alexander Barclay's Version of Sallust's Jugurtha. Sallust, (86BC-35BC) was a Roman historian, politician, and novus homo from an Italian family. The Jugurthine War took place in 112-106 BC, between Rome and Jugurtha of Numidia, a kingdom on the north African coast approximating to modern Algeria. 'Early English Woodcut. From British Book Illustration - Yesterday and To-day edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio, Ltd., London, 1923]