Dionysiou Longinou Peri hypsous hypomnēma. = Dionysii Longini De sublimitate commentarius, quem nova versione donavit, perpetuis notis illustravit, plurimisque in locis, partim auctoritate optimorum manuscriptorum, partim conjecturâ, emendavit (additis etiam omnibus ejusdem auctoris fragmentis) Zacharias Pearce, A.M. Regiae Majestatis à sacris.
Longinus (fl.1st century)
Category
Books
Date
1724
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3109272
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], xv, [1], 187, [1], 28, [16] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 4835. Imperfect: wanting preliminary advertisement leaf. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ιβ'." [i.e. iota beta' = Greek number 12]. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title on brown morocco label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Longinus (fl.1st century) Zachary Pearce (1690-1744), editor Louis Cheron (1655-1725), artist Gerard Vandergucht (London 1696 - London 1776), engraver (printmaker)