The works of Hesiod translated from the Greek. By Mr. Cooke.
Hesiod (c.8th century BC)
Category
Books
Date
1728
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3025865
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill., port. ; 4to. Running number: 7230. Bound in 1 vol. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript code on front fly-leaf: "L/y". Binding: eighteenth-century full blind- and gold-tooled sprinkled calf; sewn onto three sewing supports with five raised bands; double gilt fillet border and inner blind roll pattern panel with blind cornerpiece stamps; blind roll pattern along board edges; gilt double fillets on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Hesiod (c.8th century BC), author Thomas Cooke (1703-1756), editor William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764), engraver (printmaker)