M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia: sive De bello civili inter Caesarem & Pompeium libri decem.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1719
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3087294
Summary
Bibliographic description
[44], 221, [131] p. : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 4976. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf (loose): "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "γ½" [i.e. gamma½ = Greek number 3½]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; blind roll pattern on board edges; gilt fillets and stamps on spine, with gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD) Michael Maittaire (1667-1747) John Cole (fl.1720), engraver (printmaker)