Tacitus.
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115)
Category
Books
Date
1830 - 1831
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3115211.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2, plate. port. 8vo. Bookseller's ticket: "Combe, Bookseller, Leicester". Leaves unopened. Provenance: most of set shelved in Gardner Wilkinson library, but probably a stray from the family library; no bookplate or inscription. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full ochre cloth, black lettered on covers and spine.
Makers and roles
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115), author Arthur Murphy (1727-1805)