P. Virgilii Maronis opera, / varietate lectionis et perpetua adnotatione illustrata, a Chr. Gottl. Heyne, ... Accedit index uberrimus.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1793
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3155992.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Editio tertia emendatior et auctior. v.1, plate : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil notes on rear free endpapers. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "Cremer Cremer / St John's Coll. Camb. / 1817." [i.e. Rev. Cremer Cremer (1795-1867)]. Ink-stamp on second front free endpaper: 'Cremer'. Binding: late eighteenth-century full calf; double gilt fillet to form an outer border; blind rolled inner border of palmettes; sewn onto four recessed cords; gilt and blind tooling on spine; lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Virgilii Opera à Heyne'; edge rolled in gilt at corners of boards; gilt rolled on turn-ins; marbled edges; grey endpapers; dark blue ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC) Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812), editor