Lucanus.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1515
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3078823
Summary
Bibliographic description
137, [3] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7045. Ruled in red throughout. Printed capital letters have strokes in yellow supplied on leaves a1v to b8v. Infrequent manuscript marginal markings. Provenance: eighteenth-century manuscript inscription in black ink on front fly-leaf verso (facing title page): "V. 1718 6m J Bridges" [i.e. purchase code and autograph of John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer; Bridges' library was sold in London, 7 Feb. 1725/26]. Lot 818 in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire; Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges library sale in 1726. Binding: eighteenth-century gold-tooled full dark red goatskin; sewn on four recessed cords; smooth spine; X-crossed lacing visible under pastedowns; covers gold-tooled to a panel design, outer and inner panels of a dotted roll between single and double fillets, the inner panel with cornerpiece stamps; gilt dotted roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine with four compartments with double fillet and dotted tool border, each with a single tool (same as cornerpieces on covers), the first compartment with title 'LVCA / NVS' lettered directly onto spine, the compartments divided by gilt oval, lozenge and square roll tool; gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer