The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140)
Category
Books
Date
1697
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3160566
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xc, 371, 370-498, 497-501, [3] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Former shelfmark: S.16. 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 "M" [in MS.] Shelf "2" [i.e. a Lyme Park book]. Nineteenth-century bookplate on front fly-leaf, printed in red with Legh ram’s head crest, lettered: W.J. L. [i.e. William John Legh, first Lord Newton (1828-1898)]. Binding: late seventeenth-century panelled sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border; central panel formed by triple blind fillets, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt title and translator labels on spine, with nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamp [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140) Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) (34-62 AD) William Bowles (d.1705) William Congreve (1670-1729) Thomas Creech (1659-1700) Charles Dryden (1666-1704) John Dryden (1631 - 1700) Stephen Harvey (1655-1707) George Stepney (1663-1707) Nahum Tate (1652-1715) Richard Duke (1658-1711) Thomas Power (fl.1678-1692) Thomas Power (b.1659/60)