Homerou Ilias.= . Homeri Ilias. Cum brevi annotatione curante C. G. Heyne. Accedunt scholia minora passim emendata. ...
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1834
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038342
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. . 8vo.. Previous shelfmark: J.3.8-9. Christies, 21 June 2004, lot 647.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914. manuscript inscription in pencil on vol. 2 front pastedown: "Mrs. Pickering, Addington Vale, Maidstone, Kent". manuscript marginal notes and pencil sketches (horses, carts, foxes, hunting scenes, etc.)throughout vol. 2.. Binding: Nineteenth-century calf bindings; blind fillet border; blind roll on board edges and turn-ins; gilt fillets and blind dotted rolls on spines, with red gilt title labels.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812)