Shelfmark
Kl.4.18
Title
Gradus ad Parnassum : sive novus synonymorum, epithetorum, versuum ac phrasium poeticarum, thesaurus ... / ab uno è Societate Jesu; cum novissimâ editione sexcentis testimoniis à Thoma Morell auctâ, conferta & recensita.
Edition
Cum novissimâ editione.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : Pro Societate Stationariorum impressum, MDCCCII [1802].
Physical description
[4], 668 p ; 19 cm.
Note
Attributed to Paul Aler.
Note
With final page of advertisements in English.
Note
Watermarked paper, horizontal chain lines.
Provenance
Loose clipping featuring a poem by Shane Leslie about the discovery of this book in the library of Dr. Rosenbach.
Provenance
Ms. inscription on front cover: "Shelley" ; ms. inscription on title-page: "P. B. Shelley, Eton 1806" ; ms. doodles on back endpapers [?]in P. B. Shelley's hand.
Binding
Early 19th century brown calf with blind rolls on boards and gilt fillets on re-backed spine ; housed in [?]late 19th century red morocco box with blind rolls and gilt lettering, with red cloth dust-jacket with gilt lettering.
Copy-specific note
Ms. bookseller's codes in pencil.
Subject
Latin language.
Added entry--name
Morell, Thomas, 1703 - 1784 editor.
Added entry--name
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792 - 1822 former owner.
Added entry--name
Rosenbach, A. S. W., 1876 - 1952 (Abraham Simon Wolf) former owner.
Added entry--name
Aler, Paul, 1656 - 1727 attributed name.
Added entry--name
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B26194