T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex. D. Lamini, & Adr. Turnebi opera à multis mendis vindicate, recogniti, & perpurgati. Cum variis lectionibus & indice rerum insigniorum.
Lucretius (c.99-55 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1576
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029817
Summary
Bibliographic description
295, [1] p. ; 16mo. Final leaf torn at foot – removing sixteenth-century ownership inscription? Annotated in a sixteenth-century hand. Underlined in pencil. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on p. 80 in a sixteenth-century hand: Robt Evanes wrote this booke [same hand as annotations which are in Latin]. Armorial bookplate on titlepage verso: John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) hidden by new endpaper which has been pasted down over it: 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: Sixteenth-century dark brown calf over boards (rebacked with new endpapers), gilt spine title, remains of original single blind fillet and oval centrepiece on covers.
Makers and roles
Lucretius (c.99-55 BC)