L’Eneide di Virgilio, / del commendatore Annibal Caro. ; Col priuilegio di N.S. & della Serma. Sigria. Di Venetia.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1581
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3032495
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 556 p. ; 4to. Pencil “616” on free endpaper verso. Ruled in red throughout. Provenance: 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 goat over boards, gilt spine tooling, double gilt fillet with inner gilt rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers, gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC), author Commendatore Annibal Caro (1507 - 1566), translator