Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera.
Horace (65 - 8 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1715
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3093379
Summary
Bibliographic description
[44], 233, [327] p. : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 4985. Leaves O5-6 and Aa5-6 are transposed. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. O5 & O6. Aa5 & Aa6 transponuntur" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf: "-4-". Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; double gilt fillet border; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title on brown goatskin label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Horace (65 - 8 BC) Michael Maittaire (1667-1747) Louis Du Guernier the Younger (d. London 1716) , artist and engraver