Cornelius Nepos, De vita excellentium imperatorum.
Cornelius Nepos (99-24 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1784
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 3096760
Summary
Bibliographic description
350, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates. illus., engr. frontis..16 cm (12mo). Wanting spine label. Pencil marks on front pastedown. Provenance: adhered to front pastedown: architectural bookplate 'Ex Libris / Pavli et Lvciae / Waterhovse' partially concealing bookplate 'Condover Hall'. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf (very worn), double gilt fillets to form a border. Gilt-tooled board edges and turn-ins. Gilt-ruled and decorated spine. Swirl marbled endpapers. Gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Cornelius Nepos (99-24 BC)