The meditations of Marcus Aurelius. . Translated from the Greek by Jeremy Collier. Revised, with introduction and notes by Alice Zimmern.
Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome (121-180)
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065699
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxvii,[4],10-212,[22]p. . 8vo.. Copious manuscript notes including many dates of reading from 1913 to 1926. Some notes in pencil and subsequently inked over. Read at Wallington and Welcombe, family home of Caroline Philips Trevelyan. With extract of letter from Anna Philips, sister of Caroline, pasted onto rear flyleaf: " I shall not pass this way again [...]".. Provenance: manuscript inscription on flyleaf: "Caroline Trevelyan from George Otto Trevelyan June 7 1913". Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's maroon cloth.
Makers and roles
Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome (121-180) Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) Alice Zimmern (1855-1939)