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Shelfmark

Cr.3.3.07

Additional shelfmark

[Another copy]: En.9.13

Author

Pliny the Younger.

Collective uniform title

Works

Title

C. Plinii Cæcilii Secundi epistolarum libri X. & panegyricus. Accedunt variantes lectiones.

Publication, distribution, etc.

Lugduni Batavorum : Ex Officinâ Elseviriorum, 1640.

Physical description

[24], 414, [28]p ; 12mo.

Note

Includes a preliminary Life of Pliny by G. M. Cattaneo.

Note

Woodcut printers' device as t.p. vignette ('Non solus' motto with olive tree and vine); initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Citation/references note

Willems, W 506.

Provenance

[Crr.3.3.07]: Bookplate with motto "Nec aspera terrent" and letter F in centre of laurel wreath bearing a viscount's coronet. Pendant medal shows the arms of the West Yorkshire Regiment.

Provenance

[En.9.13]: Inscription on t.p. in pencil in juvenile hand: Edw. Bankes.

Provenance

[En.9.13]: Inscription on rear flyleaf in ink: Bartholemew Wormel (the surname crossed through). Two inscriptions (one on an insert) are addressed to 'Bartle' in a 17th century hand: Bee of good courage o Bartle / I know a thing whic[h] will make you startle.

Provenance

[En.9.13]: Inscription on rear flyleaf in ink: Thomas Gonnile.

Provenance

[En.9.13]: Topham stamp on t.p. : bequeathed to Eton College by Richard Topham in 1736.

Provenance

[En.9.13]: Armorial bookplate of Eton College.

Binding

[Crr.3.3.07]: 18th century red morocco; gold tooled roll frames; gold tooled decoration on spine; green morocco spine label; marbled endpapers; gilt edges; gauffred towards gutter.

Binding

[En.9.13]: Contemporary dark brown calf; gold tooled double fillet frame; modern rebacking, with gold tooled double fillet decoration and red morocco spine label; red sprinkled edges.

Copy-specific note

[Crr.3.3.07]: Some ms. annotations.

Copy-specific note

[En.9.13]: Some juvenile drawings of faces and flowers on front flyleaf.

Subject

Trajan, 53 - 117 Emperor of Rome.

Subject

Pliny the Younger

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Added entry--place

Netherlands Leiden.

Language code

lat

Identifier

B15412
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