Lucans Pharsalia: . or, The civill vvarres of Rome, between Pompey the great, and Iulius Cæsar. . The whole ten bookes, Englished by Thomas May, Esquire.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1635
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085818
Summary
Bibliographic description
[310]p.,plate . 8vo.. First leaf used as pastedown. Old Wimpole shelfmarks on verso of first leaf: Pp4-11 [brown ink, crossed through]; Ii/8 [pencil]. Provenance: "K" in brown ink on top edge. "EV" in brown ink on bottom edge. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) on engraved title page verso: 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: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, double blind fillet on covers, red painted edges.
Makers and roles
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD) Friedrich van Hulsius (b.1580) Thomas May (1595-1650)