Select and remarkable epitaphs on illustrious and other persons, . in several parts of Europe. With translations of such as are in Latin and foreign languages. And compendious accounts of the deceased, their lives and works. By John Hackett, Late Commoner of Baliol-College, Oxford. In two volumes.
John Hackett (b.1734/5)
Category
Books
Date
1757
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3142146
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plate . ill.. . 12mo.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; five raised bands; spine gilt decorated and spine label gilt lettered: "Hackett's Epitaphs".
Makers and roles
John Hackett (b.1734/5)