T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex.
Lucretius (c.99-55 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1611
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3003506
Summary
Bibliographic description
176, [12] p. ; 12mo. Seventeenth-century manuscript line numbers added to the poem. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on titlepage in a late seventeenth- early eighteenth-century hand: Jo Somers [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. Binding: Seventeenth-century polished calf over boards on two alum-tawed thongs, triple blind fillet on spine, double blind fillet on covers (thin & thick), remains of blind fillet on board edges, red sprinkled edges. Spine label missing.
Makers and roles
Lucretius (c.99-55 BC)