Fragmenta poetarum veterum Latinorum, quorum opera non extant ... Undique à Rob. Stephano summa diligentia olim congesta: nunc autem ab Henrico Stephano eius filio digesta ...
Henri Estienne (1531-1598)
Category
Books
Date
1564
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3113954
Summary
Bibliographic description
433p. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate lettered The Right Honourable Wilmot, Viscount Lisburne. (Not in Franks) [i.e. Wilmot Vaughn (1730-1800), 4th Viscount Lisburne from 1766 to 1776, when he was created 1st Earl]. Pressmark added in eighteenth-century hand: Case 5 Shelf 5 No. 21. Eighteenth-century (?) inscription on flyleaf, in different hand: R.4.42. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Eighteenth-century full red leather over boards; gilt fillets; gilt centre panel with gilt fillets and gilt corner tools; gilt-tooled inner borders; spine browned; elaborately gilt; gilt spine title "Fragm. Poetar. Latinor. H. Steph."; sewn on five raised bands; gilt paper edges.
Makers and roles
Henri Estienne (1531-1598) Robert Estienne (1503-1559)