The natural history of Pliny
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1855 - 1857
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3173151
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v.;. 8vo. Note by Gardner WIlkinson facing title page in v.1 "The errors in this translation and in the notes are extraordinary ... " Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's blue cloth; as issued
Makers and roles
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), author John Bostock (1773-1846), editor Henry Thomas Riley (1816-1878), editor