Book
Pindar (Pindaros) (c.522-c.443 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1598
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 3086570
Summary
2 works bound in a single volume.
Bibliographic description
8vo.. Note on lifted front pastedown: "Anacreon When monkeys grow mischievous they are whipt, chain'd up & whipt. Rochester [... illegible]" (sixteenth-century hand?); price on same page, different hand: "Stetis 1[...?] - 6[...?]". Occasional underlinings and marginal notes in Latin and Greek. Notes in English on back flyleaf, on the texts. Provenance: Inscription on front flyleaf: "J. Hammond Coll. Trin.". Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf binding; blind-tooled fillets; spine sewn onto four raised bands; edges rolled in gold; edge of text block red.
Makers and roles
Pindar (Pindaros) (c.522-c.443 BC)