Mores hominum. The manners of men, described in sixteen satyrs, by Juvenal: . as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France. Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture: with arguments to the satyrs. As also explanations to the designes in English and Latine. Together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place, wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories. By Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight. Published by authority.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140)
Category
Books
Date
1660
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3047828
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20],270,277-522,[30] p., [18] plates . ill.., port.. . fol... Provenance: Inscribed: "Geo:[?] Whitfeild 1703"; [at rear] Johanna Whitfeiild". Binding: Seventeenth or early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border; blind tooled centre panel; remanants of gilt on board edges; five small, circular armorial blind stamps, irregularly added to upper board; red sprinkled edges. Damage to lower corners.
Makers and roles
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140) Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 - London 1677) Sir Robert Stapylton (d.1669)