GratI Falisci Cynegeticon. Or, A poem of hunting by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and illustrated by Christopher Wase Gent.
Faliscus Grattius
Category
Books
Date
1654
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3091361
Summary
Bibliographic description
[94], 86 p. ; 12mo. Running number: 7341. Provenance: former eighteenth-century shelfmark on inside front board: "G.5.18" [possibly written by Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf (scribbled over in ink but partially legible): "Walter ...ees ...". Binding: seventeenth-century sheepskin; sewn on three recessed leather cords; smooth spine; no tooling on upper board, double blind fillet border on lower board; blind roll pattern along board edges; spine mostly missing. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Faliscus Grattius, author Christopher Wase (Hackney 1627 - Oxford 1690), editor Edmund Waller (1606 - 1687), author