Homeri Odyssea Graece et Latine : item Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, et Epigrammata, Homero vulgò ascripta
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1740
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3149359
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([4], 374; [2], 375-784, [36] p.) ; 4to. Both volumes bound together. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "Davenport Talbot", i.e. William Davenport Talbot, 1764-1800, on recto of first free end-paper. Binding: eighteenth century gilt tooled sprinkled calf; decorative tooling on edges of boards; gilt tooling and gilt tooled title "Homeri Odyssea Clarke" on spine; text block edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC), author Dr Samuel Clarke (1675-1729), editor Samuel Clarke Junior (d.1778), editor