Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex.
Lucretius (c.99-55 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1713
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3109276
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 214, [202] p. : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 4967. 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)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title on brown goatskin label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Lucretius (c.99-55 BC), author Michael Maittaire (1667-1747), editor Louis Du Guernier the Younger (d. London 1716) , engraver (printmaker) Louis Laguerre (Versailles 1663 - London 1721), artist