De Latinitate falsò suspecta, expostulatio Henrici Stephani. Eiusdem De Plauti Latinitate dissertatio, & ad lectionem illius progymnasma.
Henri Estienne (1531-1598)
Category
Books
Date
1576
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3201766
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 400 p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5613. Provenance: manuscript inscription at head of title page: "Bibliothecá Colbertiná" [i.e. from the library of the great French bibliophile Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1619-1683), Chief Minister to Louis XIV; written in the hand of his librarian, Étienne Baluze (1630-1718). Colbert’s library was dispersed at a sale in Paris, 24 May-21 October 1728, and at two sales in London (23 April 1729 and 17 November 1735)]. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf; gilt double fillet border; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Henri Estienne (1531-1598), author