Dēmosthenous, Aischinou, Deinarchou kai Dēmadou ta Sōzomena. : Graece et latine. Tomus secundus [-tertius]. / Edidit Ioannes Taylor, LL.D. ecclesiae de Lawford in agro Essexiensi rector: Archidiaconus Buckinghamiensis: et dioeceseos Lincolniensis Cancellarius.
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1748 - 1757
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3054408
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill. ; 4to. Manuscript note on flyleaf in an eighteenth-century hand: "The first volume was never printed". Pencil “108/3” on flyleaf. Manuscript catalogue slip loose in vol. 2. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sheep over boards, gilt spine tooling, red-brown spine labels, double gilt fillet on covers, gilt roll on board edges, red painted edges. The volumes are bound to look uniform, but the spine tools and shade of spine labels differ slightly.
Makers and roles
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE) Socraticus Aeschines John Taylor (1704-1766) Hieronymous Wolf (1516 - 1580), translator