C. Cornelii Taciti Opera omnia . Ex editione Oberliniana cum notis et interpretatione in usum Delphini variis lectionibus notis variorum justi lipsii excursibus recensu codicum et editionum et indece locupletissimo Accurate recensita.
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Leather, Paper
Measurements
218 x 139 mm; 45 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087669.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1. 8vo.. Some leaves have small sections cut away. With manuscript notes, some in an unidentified nineteenth-century hand, but mainly in the hand of G.O. Trevelyan (1838-1928), of which some are transcribed from Macaulay's marginalia in another edition. G.O.T. notes on flyleaf: Macaulay's notes and marginal lines (on the outside margins) are transferred from his Bipontine Edition. His notes are marked with an "M". Macaulays dates of reading: 'Began in Calcutta May 16 1836', May 16, 17, 19, 21 1836; December 3, 4, 6, 8 1837. GOT's dates of reading include: - 'Florence Jan. 22 1901. The day of Queen Victoria's death'. June 22.1920', July 19 1924 "The truth is", Macaulay wrote in 1849, "that I admire no historian much except Herodotus, Thucydides, and Tacitus. Perhaps in his own very peculiar way I might add Fra Paolo": 'Jan. 25 1901: 'On way from Florence to Rome, Edward the Seventh proclaimed yesterday'. June 22 1920 : 'Read with unceasing zest and admiration. May I live to finish him! But I was 86 last month Aug. 2 1924'. Provenance: Pastedown obscures armorial bookplate of former owner, lettered S.T. Galton (possibly Samuel Tertius Galton, 1783-1844).. Binding: Full leather binding, rebacked; red and green spine labels.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115) Jeremias Jacob Oberlin (1735-1806)