Jacobii Palmerii à Grentemesnil Graeciae antiquae descriptio.
Jacques Le Paulmier (1587-1670)
Category
Books
Date
1678
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3207342
Summary
Bibliographic description
[56], 108, 107-684, [18] p. ; 4to. Running number: 5898. 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: "ε1/5" [i.e. epsilon 1/5 = Greek number 5 1/5]. Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Corl. ...". Manuscript inscription on title page: "A Palmer 1689". Manuscript price[?] in small writing after date of imprint on title page: "tt 7" [i.e. 7 livres tournois]. Binding: seventeenth-century English[?] sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border, with two additional double blind fillets parallel to spine-edge; gilt roll pattern along board edges; four raised bands; gilt floral stamp within double gilt fillet frame in first and third to fifth panels on spine, gilt title on brown gotskin label in second panel on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Jacques Le Paulmier (1587-1670), author Etienne Morin (1625-1700), editor