The history of Polybius, the Megalopolitan
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1698
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3160559
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v., plates (v.1: [2],xxxv,[1],xiv,158,149-270,196p.; v.2: [2],363,[1]p.; v.3: 92,[32]p.) : maps ; 8vo. Vols. 2 and 3 bound together. Pagination (as per ESTC): vol. 1: [2], xxxv, [1], xiv, 158, 149-270, 196, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; vol. 2: [2], 304 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; vol. 3: 92, [4] p. Imperfect: wanting penultimate advertisement leaf in vol. 1. 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 "G" [in MS.] Shelf "2" [i.e. a Lyme Park book]. Binding: late seventeenth-century panelled calf; double blind fillet border, with blind roll pattern along spine-edge; central panel formed by triple blind fillets, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges. Both vols. rebacked in calf, with green morocco title labels, and nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamp [i.e. a Legh family book] on spines.
Makers and roles
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE) Sir Henry Sheeres John Dryden (1631 - 1700)