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Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54BC)
Category
Books
Date
1702
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3061405
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 472, 489-496, 481-520 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 4to. Pencil "310" on pastedown. Bound uniformly and shelved with Cambridge Latin editions of Horace’s Works, 1699, Virgil’s Works, 1701, and the Works of Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius, 1702. Provenance: armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Early eighteenth-century sheep over boards, gilt spine tooling and title, double gilt fillet and small floral cornerpieces on covers, gilt floral roll on board edges and inners, brown and yellow sprinkled edges. Sprinkling has gone over onto front cover and been partially wiped away.
Makers and roles
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54BC) Albius Tibullus (c.48 - 19 BCE), author Sextus Aurelius Propertius (c.50/45 - c.15 BC), author Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, editor