Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicæ, . præcipue Romanæ, figuris illustratæ, tribus voll. comprehensæ; quorum I. De Belgio Britannico. II. De Geta Britanico. III. De Julii Vitalis epitaphio: quibus accedit appendix. Auctore Guilh. Musgrave, ...
William Musgrave (1655-1721)
Category
Books
Date
1711 - 1720
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3252070
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 vols. 8vo. Made up set: vols. 2 & 3 predate 1719 reissue. Listed as 4 vols in catalogue of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742). Uniformly bound. Shelved separately by Miss O'Sullivan's catalogue in the 1940s. Vol. 1 wanting plate XIII and signature 2A misbound. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled brown calf over boards with double gilt fillet and blind palmette border; blind roll pattern on board edges; five raised bands, gilt tooled spine with gilt title on brown goatskin label; two-colour endbands of red and cream thread; pastedown with conjugate endleaf and additional endleaves; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
William Musgrave (1655-1721), author