Ars poetica in pluribus dissertationibus comicas, pastoritias, tragicas, tragicocomicas, Tassi, Bonarelli, Quinot, Petri Cornelj, Guarini, aliorumque ad crysim revocantibus perquisita, et vindicata. ...
Francesco Dini (fl.17-18th century)
Category
Books
Date
1713
Materials
Place of origin
Lucca
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3222758
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 202, [4] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7556. 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: "ε½" [i.e. epsilon½ = Greek number 5]. Manuscript inscription on fly-leaf facing title page: "Ars Poetica" [i.e. title note and catalogue entry for anonymous works, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751)]. Manuscript number at foot of front pastedown: "1438". Manuscript inscription in pencil at head of front pastedown: "W. Sch." [possibly short for William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian (1832-1870)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; sewn on five raised bands; gilt floral roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine with floral rolls and stamps; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Brown and red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Francesco Dini (fl.17-18th century)