C. Cornelius Tacitus de moribus Germanorum, et de vita Agricolæ; ex editione Gabrielis Brotier ad alteram Joh. Aug. Ernesti collatâ.
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115)
Category
Books
Date
1788
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3025976
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],39,[3],48,[2]p. . 12mo. Not indigenous. Bound (1) with Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus (1789). Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate lettered The Right Honourable Wilmot Earl of Lisburne, in the Kingdom of Ireland. (Not in Franks) [i.e. Wilmot Vaughn (1730-1800), 4th Viscount Lisburne from 1766 to 1776, when he was created 1st Earl]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Nineteenth-century full brown straight-grained morocco binding over boards; gilt fillets; spine gilt; blue-green morocco spine label with title: "C. C. Taciti Agric: Germ: & De Orat:".
Makers and roles
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115) Gabriel Brotier (1723-1789)