The epigrams of Martial translated into English prose . each accompanied by one or more verse translations from the works of English poets, and various other sources.
Martial (c.40-c.104)
Category
Books
Date
1914
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
187 x 122 mm; 50 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087802
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],x,660p. . 8vo.. Bookseller's price of 7/6 on flyleaf.. Provenance: manuscript inscription, partly erased, on flyleaf: 'Trevelyan 1915'. Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's blue cloth.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Martial (c.40-c.104)