Istoria de' poeti Greci e di que' che'n Greca lingua han poetato. Scritta da Lorenzo Crasso Barone di Pianura.
Lorenzo Crasso
Category
Books
Date
1678
Materials
Place of origin
Naples
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3030656
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 536 p. ; fol. Running number: 7814. 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)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ιε'" [i.e. iota epsilon = Greek number 15]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf, scribbled over in ink. Manuscript booksellers' code on verso of front free endpaper. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on four supports; six raised bands; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with fillet, roll and stamp decoration; gilt title on brown leather label on spine; burnished textblock edges; wide comb pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Lorenzo Crasso, author