The Pharsalia of Lucan
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1905
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3160530
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, [2], 334 p. ; 8vo. Former shelfmark: P.4.3. 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). Binding: twentieth-century half-bound blue morocco, with light blue cloth over boards; gold-lettered spine, with gilt ram's head crest stamp [i.e. a Legh family book]. Marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front fly-leaf: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD) Sir Edward Ridley (1843-1928)