Publii Terentii Carthaginiensis Afri Comoediae sex.
Terence (c.190-159 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1713
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3109282
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 276, [152] p. : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 4942. Frontispiece bound at end of preliminaries. 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: "β'." [i.e. beta' = Greek number 2]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gold-tooled spine, with remnants of gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Terence (c.190-159 BC) Michael Maittaire (1667-1747) Louis Du Guernier the Younger (d. London 1716) , engraver (inciser)