Homeri Ilias graece et latine. Annotationes in usum serenissimi principis Gulielmi Augusti, ducis de Cumberland, &c. regio jussu scripsit atque edidit Samuel Clarke, S.T.P. ...
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1740
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3219265
Summary
Bibliographic description
Editio tertia. 2v. : port. ; 8vo. Imperfect: vol. 1 only; missing titlepage and lower half of final leaf. Priced in ink: 14s. 6. Extensive pencil annotations & translations throughout. Ink manuscript on endpapers. Five additional small leaves inserted as markers: first of these (p.23) with printed children's illustration; others have further ink manuscript notes in eighteenth-century hand. Provenance: inscribed in different forms: Sunderland Eton Coll. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double blind fillet border, with blind roll on spine side; five raised bands; missing spine label; double crosses cut in boards.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Dr Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) Samuel Clarke Junior (d.1778)