Pub. Terentii Afri Com<oe>diæ sex . Ex editione Westerhoviana cum notis et interpretatione in usum Delphini variis lectionibus notis variorum recensu editionum et codicum et indice locupletissimo Accurate recensitæ.
Terence (c.190-159 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1824
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088347
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v.([iv],1726,[2],ccclxxxix p.) . 8vo.. With manuscript notes in the hand of G.O. Trevelyan (1838-1928), some copied from an edition owned by Lord Macaulay: 'The Macaulay marks are on the outer margin.' manuscript dates of reading for Macaulay: 1835, 1837. Dates for G.O.T.: 1902, 1907, 1913, 1918,1923. 'Welcombe April 18 1918. I read Terence again through, reading the Phormio during the terrible week of the German onrush at Armentières, and the Irish conscription in Parliament.' With an invitation to a Literary Society event inserted as bookmark at p.842 vol. II. 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.
Makers and roles
Terence (c.190-159 BC) Arnout Hendrik Westerhoff (1677 - 1737)