Lucii Apuleii Madaurensis platonici philosophi Opera interpretatione et notis illustravit Julianus Floridus ... Jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum serenissimi Delphini.
Apuleius (c.125- after 170)
Category
Books
Date
1688
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3024663
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48], 848, 256 [i.e. 254 p.] : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 4710. Pagination: [48], 564, [4], 565-848, 256 [i.e. 254] p. With a blank leaf and the additional title page inserted after p. 564. Provenance: bookseller's engraved bookplate on verso of front fly-leaf: bust of Seneca signed 'H. Hulsbergh sc.', with text 'This book and all sorts are to be had at Math: Varenne's at the Senecas head near Sommerset house in ye Strand' [i.e. Matthew de Varenne (fl. 1717-1724), bookseller]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; triple blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine with small bird stamps, and gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Apuleius (c.125- after 170) Julianus Floridus