C. Plinii Cæcilii secundi Epistolarvm libri X & Panegyrivs. : Accedunt variantes lectiones.
Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1640
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029413
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 414, [26] p. ; 12mo. Manuscript notes on front and back flyleaves – Lord Somers' hand? Lines against text on pp. 13, 15, 101. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (small) on titlepage verso: John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. 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: seventeenth-century vellum over boards on three alum-tawed thongs, single gilt fillet on spine, red spine label. Vellum goes partly over fore-edge.
Makers and roles
Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD)