P. Virgilii Maronis Opera / interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruæus Soc. Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, ad usum serenissimi Delphini.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1682
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3032659
Summary
Bibliographic description
[26], 682, 687-694, 685-692, 699-866, [192] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 4to. Pencil price on flyleaf: 1-10-0. Pencil “614” on flyleaf. 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 red morocco over boards, gilt spine tooling including fleur-de-lys tools, triple gilt fillet border with inner rectangular compartment and fleur-de-lys cornerpieces on covers, gilt rolls on board edges and inners, gilt edges over red and blue marbling, contemporary paste paper. Tooled spine title: Virgilii Opera.
Makers and roles
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC) Charles de La Rue (1643-1725), editor