The idylliums of Theocritus . with Rapin's discourse of pastorals done into English.
Theocritus (c.308-c.240 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1684
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3025716
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 68, 160 p., [1] leaf of plate . 8vo. Imperfect: wanting engraved frontispiece. Former shelfmarks: Ii/8 (in pencil), Ii.4.33 (ink). manuscript Tittenhanger library code on rear pastedown: "(28:)".. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Tittenhanger Library" [i.e. from the library at Tittenhanger in Hertfordshire formed by Thomas Pope Blount, grandfather of the wife of Charles Yorke (1722-1770)].. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double blind fillet border, with quarter double blind fillet; gilt roll on board edges; blind fillets and red title label on spine.
Makers and roles
Theocritus (c.308-c.240 BC) Thomas Creech (1659-1700) René Rapin (1621-1687)