Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive Syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniae atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum. Autore Willielmo Baxter, Cornavio, scholae Merciariorum praefecto. Accedunt viri cl. D. Edvardi Luidii, Cimeliarchae Ashmol. Oxon. De fluviorum, montium, urbium, &c. in Britanniâ nominibus, adversaria posthuma.
William Baxter (1650-1723)
Category
Books
Date
1719
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3004659
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], xiv, [4], 277, [27] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 8vo. Running number: 6090. Binding: eighteenth-century full red morocco; double gilt fillet border with small cornerpiece stamps; single gilt fillet along board edges; gilt roll pattern on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine; gilt title label on spine. Gilt edges. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Baxter (1650-1723), author Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709), author Joseph Highmore (London 1692 – Canterbury 1780), artist George Vertue (London 1684 - London 1756), engraver (printmaker)