Epicteti Enchiridion made English, in a poetical paraphrase.
Epictetus (c.60 - after 100 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1695
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3094904
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24],120p., [1] leaf of plates . ill.. . 8vo. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Right Honble. John Lord Hervey created Baron of Ickworth in Com. Suff. March the 23d. 1702 [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)]. Marginalia and underscorings in pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751).. Binding: Seventeenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled calf binding; gilt roll on board edges. Rebacked in blind-tooled calf, with gilt title and date stamped on spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Epictetus (c.60 - after 100 AD), author Ellis Walker, editor William Elder (fl.1680-1700), engraver (printmaker) Joshua Barnes (1654-1712), author Matthew Bryan (d.1699), author