Janua linguarum trilinguis; . sive, Johannis-Amos-Comenii janua linguarum novissimè ab ipso authore recognita, aucta, emendata: adjunctis metaphrasi Græca et Anglicana versione.
Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670)
Category
Books
Date
1670
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3090679
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],274,[2]p., [17] plates . port.. . 8vo.. Imperfect: lacks title page and portrait. Identified as this edition by the signatures of the preliminary gathering. (NB. In this copy the fifth and sixth leaves of the preliminaries are unsigned, but appear to be conjugate with some of the earlier preliminary leaves). With t-p supplied in manuscript by W.H. Allnutt, incorrectly identifying it as the 1662 edition.. Provenance: With copious scribbles on verso of final plate, and one on plate 15 which may be in the hand of John Robartes, (1606-85, 1st Earl of Radnor). Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf. Boards blind-tooled with double frames of filets and cornerpieces. Edges of boards gilt. Edges of textblock sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670)