Medulla poetarum Romanorum: or, The most beautiful and instructive passages of the Roman poets. Being a collection, (disposed under proper heads,) of such descriptions, allusions, comparisons, characters, and sentiments, as may best serve to shew the religion, learning, politicks, arts, customs, opinions, manners, and circumstances of the antients. With translations of the same in English verse. By Mr. Henry Baker. ...
Henry Baker (1698 - 1774)
Category
Books
Date
1737
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3199022
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. (12], 555, [1]; [4], 545, [11] p.) ; 8vo. Running number: 5435. Provenance: manuscript inscription (very faint) on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "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 double fillet border; blind roll pattern on board edges; spines gilt, with fillets, title label and vol. number. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Henry Baker (1698 - 1774)