Q. Horatii Flacci Eclogae, una cum scholiis perpetuis, tam veteribus quàm novis. Adjecit etiam, ubi visum est, & sua; textumque ipsum plurimis locis vel corruptum vel turbatum restituit Willielmus Baxter.
Horace (65 - 8 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1725
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3157801
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 492, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 8vo. Running number: 5052. Imperfect: wanting the dedication. Pagination: [16] 492, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript bibliographic inscription on front pastedown: "Insignis haec est ad usum legentium perquam accomodata emendata editio. Fabricio teste. Bib: Tom: 1ma p238". Pencil drawing of a dragon's[?] head and sketches of heads and other creatures on front and rear endpapers. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title on brown goatskin label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Horace (65 - 8 BC) William Baxter (1650-1723) John Baxter (fl.1725)