The Idylliums of Theocritus. . Translated from the Greek, with notes critical and explanatory by Francis Fawkes, M.A.
Theocritus (c.308-c.240 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1767
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3093485
Summary
Bibliographic description
lvi,[10],288,[2]p., [1] leaf of plates . port.. . 8vo. Provenance: The description of Theocritus by Marcus Manilius (from the 1697 translation by Thomas Creech of Astronomica) manuscript inscribed on front flyleaf. Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full mottled leather binding; gilt tooled border; six raised bands; spine gilt decorated and spine label gilt lettered: "Fawkes's Theocritus".
Makers and roles
Theocritus (c.308-c.240 BC) Francis Fawkes (1720-1777) Edward Burnaby Greene (d.1788)