Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii Opera.
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54BC)
Category
Books
Date
1715
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3193213
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 243, [355] p. : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 4989. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ε'." [i.e. epsilon' = Greek number 5]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; blind roll pattern on board edges; gilt fillet and stamp decoration on spine, with gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54BC), author Albius Tibullus (c.48 - 19 BCE), author Sextus Aurelius Propertius (c.50/45 - c.15 BC), author Michael Maittaire (1667-1747), editor Louis Du Guernier the Younger (d. London 1716) , artist and engraver