Publii Terentii Afri comoediae, Phaedri fabulae Aesopiae, Publii Syri et aliorum veterum sententiae, ex recensione et cum notis Richardi Bentleii.
Terence (c.190-159 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1726
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3027742
Summary
Bibliographic description
[7], XXV, 444; [8], 87, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 4to. Pencil “600” on pastedown. Manuscript note on p. 258 in Philip Yorke’s hand. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on frontispiece verso: P: Yorke, 1726. Donum Clariss: Editoris. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, gilt spine tooling, brown spine label, double gilt fillet with inner blind roll on covers, gilt roll on board edges, red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Terence (c.190-159 BC)