Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum libri X. : Graece et Latine ad fidem optimorum librorum quam correctissime recensiti et nunc primum in capita eaque in numeros distributi, insertis XXVI. philosophorum figuris aeri incisis et additis indicibus ante vulgatis longe locupletioribus / a Paullo Daniele Longolio.
Diogenes Laertius (fl.3rd century)
Category
Books
Date
1739
Materials
Place of origin
Hof
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3193165
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([8], 77, [3], 558, [4], 561-1234, [112] p.) : ports. ; 8vo. Running number: 4974. Imperfect: wanting main title page. The additional title page in vol. 1 is bound as the main title page. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf in vol. 1: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines, with gilt title on brown goatskin label and vol. number lettered directly onto spine. Red sprinkled edges. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Diogenes Laertius (fl.3rd century) Ambrogio Traversari (1386 - 1439) Paul Daniel Longolius (1704-1779)