Ho tou Thoukydidou Polemos Peloponnēsiakos. Thucydidis Bellum Peloponnesiacum. Ex editione Wassii et Dukeri. ...
Thucydides (460-400 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1759
Materials
Place of origin
Glasgow
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3230772
Summary
Bibliographic description
8 v. ; 8vo. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf in all each vol.: "Davenport Talbot" [probably William Davenport-Talbot (1764-1800)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on three supports; five raised bands; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines; gilt title 'Thucydidis' and vol. number on brown leather label on spines; red and brown sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Thucydides (460-400 BC), author Carolus Andreas Duker (1660-1752)., editor Joseph Wasse (bap. Hawnby 1671 - 1738), editor