Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae, . tam accurate congestus, vt nihil penè in eo desyderari possit, quod vel Latinè complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglicè, toties aucta Eliotae Bibliotheca: opera & industria Thomae Cooperi Magdalenensis. ... Accessit dictionarium historicum et poëticum propria vocabula virorum, mulierum, sectarum, populorum, vrbium, montium, & caeterorum locorum complectens, & in his iucundissimas & omnium cognitione dignissimas historias.
Thomas Cooper (1517-1594)
Category
Books
Date
1578
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038664
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1720]p. . fol.. Previous shelfmark: E.10.5. Wanting initial blank leaf. "&" in line 10 of title. Identified in 1796 inventory: F 297, price 2s. 6d. Christies, 21 June, 2004, lot 580.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914.. Binding: Seventeenth-century[?] sprinkled sheepskin binding (very worn); double blind fillet border; gilt dotted roll on board edges; gilt title panel on spine.
Makers and roles
Thomas Cooper (1517-1594) Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546) Henri Estienne (1531-1598)