Due tragedie: la Merope, e la Demodice.
Marchese Scipioni Maffei (1675-1755)
Category
Books
Date
1721
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3025324
Summary
Bibliographic description
226, [2] p. ; 8vo. Pencil “1A 3C” on titlepage. Provenance: early eighteenth-century manuscript inscription on titlepage: H. Portman Preb: [rest cropped by binding]. Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770), younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, gilt spine tooling, brown spine label, blind double fillet with inner rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers, gilt roll on board edges, red sprinkled edges
Makers and roles
Marchese Scipioni Maffei (1675-1755) , author Giovanni Battista Recanati (d.1735), author Nicola Francesco Haym (c.1679-1729), editor