The nature of things, a didascalic poem, translated from the Latin of Titus Lucretius Carus: accompanied with commentaries, comparative, illustrative, and scientific; and the life of Epicurus. ...
Lucretius (c.99-55 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1813
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3186182
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates: frontis. port. ; fol. Provenance: Subscribers' list includes: "Sir Henry Crew, Bart." [i.e. Sir Henry Harpur, 7th Baronet (1763-1819), surname changed to Crewe, 1808]. Also contains a nineteenth-century small armorial bookplate: Calke Abbey library [associated with Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet (1795-1844) and Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet (1824-1886)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon morocco on marbled paper over boards, half blind fillets. Gilt tooling on spine, lettered direct in gilt on spine: "Busby's Lucretius". Edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Lucretius (c.99-55 BC), author Dr Thomas Busby (1754-1838)