Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining moral stories; . invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation; and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit: whence the most celebrated of our own poets and others, from the earliest times, have extracted their plots. Translated from the Latin, with preliminary observations and copious notes, by the Rev. Charles Swan, ... In two volumes.
Charles Swan (d.1838)
Category
Books
Date
1824
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3141972
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. . 18 cm.. Provenance: Nineteenth-century binding stamp with Baron's coronet lettered 'S.' [probably Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Baron Scarsdale (1751-1837)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full leather binding; triple gilt fillet border; gilt binding stamp centrepiece; spine gilt decorated and black spine label gilt lettered: "Gesta Romanorum".
Makers and roles
Charles Swan (d.1838)