Aischylou Prometheus desmothēs = Aeschyli Prometheus vinctus / ad fidem manuscriptorum emendavit notas et glossarium adjecit Carolus Jacobus Blomfield.
Aeschylus (c.525 - c.456 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1812
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3012532
Summary
Bibliographic description
Editio secunda. ix, [7], 206 p. ; 8vo. Bound with blank interleaves from leaf b4 to N2 (i.e. throughout text of play). Manuscript notes on Aeschylus on blank front fly-leaves. Manuscript annotations and text marking throughout. Ephemera: loosely inserted page of handwritten notes on eloquence and excellence. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: "J.B. Cremer St. Jnos Coll: Camb:" [i.e. John Buckle Cremer (1797-1846)]. Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; blind rolled out border; recessed cords; gilt fillets and blind tooling on spine; spine lettered direct (gilt-tooled): 'Prometheus'; gilt edge rolled at corners.
Makers and roles
Aeschylus (c.525 - c.456 BCE) Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857) Bishop of London