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Gaius Julius Phaedrus (1st century)
Category
Books
Date
1701
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3190039
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 160, [84] p., [1], 18 leaves of plates : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 4838. Imperfect: wanting leaf V4 (p. 159-160), plates 4-8, 11, 15 and 18, and probably a folded portrait. Plate 3 torn. Provenance: manuscript initial letter on front fly-leaf: "D". Binding: eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf; double fillet border; double fillet and roll pattern panel, with cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; spine has blind fillet panels with blind oval stamps; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Gaius Julius Phaedrus (1st century), author Jan Goeree (Middelburg 1670 - Amsterdam 1731), publisher Marquard Gude (1635-1689), author David van Hoogstraten (1658-1724), editor Jan Van Vianen (b. ca. 1660), engraver (inciser)