The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated by John Dryden, and others. To which is prefixed a dedicatory discourse concerning the original and progress of satire.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217998
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v., plates : ill. ; 17cm (12mo) Without the series half-titles and plates. Vol. 1 of series inscribed: 100 vols 18/-/ [i.e. for whole series]. Old Lyme Park library shelfmark label: Case C. Shelf 5. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: nineteenth-century imitation green morocco (sheep); gilt tooled; gilt lettered and numbered spines: British poets ... Uniform with series.
Makers and roles
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140) Horace (65 - 8 BC) Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) (34 - 62) William Bowles (d.1705) William Congreve (1670-1729) Thomas Creech (1659-1700) Charles Dryden (1666-1704) John Dryden (1631 - 1700) Richard Duke (1658-1711) Philip Francis (1708-1773) Stephen Harvey (1655-1707) Thomas Power (fl.1678-1692) Henry James Pye (1745-1813) George Stepney (1663-1707) Nahum Tate (1652-1715)