Q. Horatius Flaccus, cum eruditio Laevini Torrentii commentario, nunc primùm in lucem editio. Item Petri Nannii Alcmariani in artem poëticam.
Horace (65 - 8 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1608
Materials
Place of origin
Belgium
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3188506
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20],839,[49]p. : ports. ; 4to. Pencil manuscript note on pastedown on binding repair. Provenance: eighteenth-century sepia armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]. Pasted over plate of former owner, possibly that of Richard Banner. Binding: seventeenth-century mottled calf; double gilt fillet border; gilt tooled spine; four raised bands; gold lettered green spine label : Horatius Torrentii.
Makers and roles
Horace (65 - 8 BC) Petrus Nannius (1500-1557) Laevinus Torrentius (1525-1595)