Gnomici poetæ græci.
Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729 - 1803)
Category
Books
Date
1784
Materials
Place of origin
Strasbourg
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3178689
Summary
Bibliographic description
[vj],349,[1]p.. 12mo. Pencil note of price on flyleaf: 3/6. Provenance: Gardner Wilkinson Library. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Signature on title page: 'Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House'. Provenance: earlier ownership marks of Bishop Richard Mant (1776-1848): (1) Signature 'Oriel Coll. 1801' with note of purchase from Lunn's, Oxford, for 10/6, and cost of binding 2/6; (2) Bookplate with crest and name: The Revd. Rd. Mant, M.A.; (3) Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate with mitre and title 'Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora'. Binding: Early nineteenth-century calf, decorative gilt borders and board-edges. Spine gilt, with dark-green leather title label. Edges of text-block sprinkled blue.
Makers and roles
Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729 - 1803)