The satyrical works of Titus Petronius Arbiter, in prose and verse. In three parts. Together with his life and character, written by Mons. St. Evremont; and a key to the satyr, by a person of quality.
Petronius Arbiter (1st century)
Category
Books
Date
1708
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3160268
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], xvi, [14], 288 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Printed shelfmark label beneath bookplate: Case "I" [in MS.] Shelf "2" [i.e. a Lyme park book]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge style panelled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges. Rebacked in calf, with nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamp [i.e. a Legh family book] on spine.
Makers and roles
Petronius Arbiter (1st century)