Auli Persii Flacci Satyræ VI. / Cum posthumis commentariis Ioannis Bond. Accessit index verborum.
Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) (34 - 62)
Category
Books
Date
1645
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3155730
Summary
Bibliographic description
126, [6] p. ; 12mo. Titlepage offset visible on final blank page. Provenance: Armorial gilt centrepiece on covers: three bunches of grapes and chevron, with coronet and greyhounds supporters [probably Charles-François Olier, marquis de Nointel, d. 1685]. Manuscript inscription on flyleaf: Edw. Browne. Emptij Constantinopoli e Bibliotheca Marchionis Nointell, Oratoris Gallici ad Aulam Ottomanicum [i.e. Edward Browne (1644–1708), physician and traveller; library sold at auction in 1711]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century polished calf over boards on three raised cords, gilt spine tooling, double gilt fillet and armorial centrepiece on covers (three bunches of grapes and chevron, with coronet and greyhounds supporters [probably Charles-François Olier, marquis de Nointel, d. 1685]), gilt roll on board edges, red and brown sprinkled edges. Pencil instruction to binder for lettering on flyleaf verso: Per Saty [probably a re-lettering instruction]. Spine label missing, but two overlapping sets of lettering impressions still visible. Front cover only attached by bottom kettle stitch.
Makers and roles
Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) (34 - 62), author John Bond (1550-1612), commentator