Shelfmark
Ba.4.01 - Ba.4.02
Additional shelfmark
Cb.1.2.07 - Cb.1.2.08 (Copy 2)
Author
Uniform title
[Iliad. Greek & Latin]
Title
Homeri Ilias Græce et Latine. Annotationes in usum Serenissimi Principis Gulielmi Augusti, Ducis de Cumberland, &c. ... scripsit atque edidit Samuel Clarke ... Vol. I [- II].
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : Typis Guliel. Botham. Impensis Jacobi et Johannis Knapton, 1729 - 1732.
Physical description
2v., plate ; 4to.
Note
Text in Greek, with Latin translation; notes in Greek and Latin.
Note
Title to Vol. II reads "Homeri Ilias ... cum annotationibus Samuelis Clarke ... nuper defuncti ... Edidit, atque imperfecta supplevit Samuel Clarke, filius ...".
Note
Vol. I: pp. 357-60 = advertisements; Vol. II: final three pages = advertisements.
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Waddington bookplate; donated to Eton by Edward Waddington in 1731.
Provenance
Copy 2: Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Copy 2: Storer bequest label dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Binding
18th century blind-stamped calf.
Binding
Copy 2: 18th century blue, straight-grained morocco with gold-tooled frame, and pink endpapers. Tools suggest that binding may be by H. Walther.
Copy-specific note
Previously Ca.4.2-3.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Extra-illustrated with plates from one of John Ogilby's editions of the Iliad (1660 or 1669). Also two loose printed sheets, probably cut from other books, depicting Homer.
Added entry--name
Clarke, Samuel, 1599 - 1682 editor.
Added entry--name
Clarke, Samuel, 1599 - 1682 editor.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--name
Botham, W. printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
grc lat
Identifier
B11491