Q. Horatii Flacci Opera.
Horace (65 - 8 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1745
Materials
Place of origin
Dublin
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3077009
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 248 p. ; 8vo. Running number: 4973. Provenance: Chippendale bookplate: 'W. Fraigneau' (Franks 11170) [i.e. William Fraigneau (1717-1778), Church of England clergyman. Admitted pensioner (aged 19) to Trinity College, Cambridge, 24 June 1736. Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge, 1744-50. Tutor to the family of Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke. Vicar of Battersea, 1758-78. Rector of Beckenham, Kent, 1765-78 -- cf. Alumni Cantabrigienses and DNB]. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title on red goatskin label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Horace (65 - 8 BC) John Hawkey (1703-1759), editor