Homeri Ilias, græce et latine. . Annotationes in usum ... Gulielmi Augusti, ducis de Cumberland, &c., Regio iussu scripsit atque edidit Samuel Clarke, ...
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1824
Materials
Place of origin
Londini
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3054510
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates . maps . 8vo.. Imperfect: lacks v.1, and pp.135-142 of v.2. Vol. 2 bound in 2 parts, dividing after p.134; first part interleaved. Part 1 has many annotations and schoolboy drawings on interleavings; scribbles on end flyleaf and pastedown and elsewhere of part 2.. Provenance: Vol. 2 part 1 has signature on pastedown: C Cust / Eton Coll. / 1830 [= Hon. Charles Henry Brownlow Cust (1813-75), son of 1st earl Brownlow]. Bookplate in v.2 part 1: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old Belton pressmark on pastedown of v.2 part 1: 147. Binding: Part 1: Half calf (nineteenth-century), marbled paper sides. Part 2: Sheep (nineteenth-century); spine numbered "2".
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Dr Samuel Clarke (1675-1729)