Thucydidis De bello peloponnesiaco libri octo. . Optimorum librorum fidem editos explanavit Ernestus Fridericus Poppo.
Thucydides (460-400 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1843 - 1851
Materials
leather, paper
Measurements
220 x 132 mm; 42 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087891.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
1v containing two vols. . 8vo.. Page 216 in II.ii is misnumbered 116. With armorial stamp on verso of several title pages: 'Vertrag vom 13 Mai [184?]'. Copious manuscript notes and schoolboy drawings and doodles throughout. One such doodle (p.73 of II ii) has the superscript: 'Alice opening a box of soldiers. An anticipation of the holidays. What a child I was!' This volume was read by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928) while at prep school and Harrow manuscript on flyleaf: '20 chap a day Wed. July 4th 1855' and under in a later hand 'when I worked so hard for trials, and was so disappointed at coming out fourteenth. But the work won me the Gregory scholarship a year later on'. Provenance: manuscript: GO Trevelyan Friday July 6th 1855.. Binding: Half leather; gilt lettered onto spine: Thucydides Poppo.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Thucydides (460-400 BC) Ernst Frederic Poppo (1794-1866)