Dēmosthenous, Aischinou, Deinarchou kai Dēmadou ta Sōzomena. Graece et latine. Tomus secundus [-tertius]. Edidit Ioannes Taylor, LL.D. ecclesiae de Lawford in agro Essexiensi rector: Archidiaconus Buckinghamiensis: et dioeceseos Lincolniensis Cancellarius.
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1748 - 1757
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3232579
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill. ; 4to. The volumes are not divided into parts. Both dedications are bound in vol. 2. No plates. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham III (1750-1810)], with small paper label in vol. 1 pasted beneath with inscription: "March 27 1769. Oxon." [i.e. when William Windham was at University College, Oxford]. Former Felbrigg shelfmarks in pencil: "Y5" (crossed-out) and "L5" (crossed-out). With marginal annotations in ink and pencil, plus underlining of text, presumably by William Windham. Binding: early nineteenth-century full Russia leather; sewn on recessed cords; false bands on spine; gold-tooled design of double fillet border, two panels of triple and single fillets joined at the corners by large ornate floral tool; gilt zig-zag roll pattern along board edges; triple gilt fillets on turn-ins; spines gilt with fillet, roll and stamp decoration, and title, editor and vol. number lettered directly onto spines; head and tail edges of bookblock are gilt, fore-edge is plain.
Makers and roles
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE), author Aeschines (c.390 - c.330 BCE), author John Taylor (1704-1766), editor Hieronymous Wolf (1516 - 1580), translator