C. Plinii Cæcilii Secundi Epistolarum libri X.
Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1790
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3100756
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 484, [2] p. . 8vo. Not indigenous. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate lettered The Right Honourable Wilmot Earl of Lisburne. (Not in Franks). [i.e. Wilmot Vaughn (1730-1800), 4th Viscount Lisburne from 1766 to 1776, when he was created 1st Earl]. manuscript pressmark on paper label partly obscuring plate. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Eighteenth-century full straight-grained red morocco over boards; gilt fillet and inner border; gilt spine title 'C. Plinii Epistolæ'.
Makers and roles
Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD)