Shelfmark
Fe.6.12
Author
Uniform title
[Historia Alexandri Magni. 1591]
Title
Q. Curtii Rufi Historiarum Magni Alexandri macedonis libri viij. Postrema editio, recognita. Cui accesserunt duorum, qui in principio desiderabantur, librorum supplementum. Alexandri vita, ex Plutarcho. Ex eodem, de Alexandri fortuna, ij. libri. Breuiaria singulis Curtii libris præfixa. Perpetu[ae] ad marginem not[ae] morales ac politicæ. Gnomologia Curtiana. Orationum & rerum memorabilium indices.
Varying form of title
Q. Cvrtii Rvfi Historiarvm Magni Alexandri Macedonis libri VIII
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni : Apud Antonium Candidum., M.D.XCI. [1591]
Physical description
[16], 411, [29] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note
Preface "Ad lectorem" signed: Ex Antonij Candidi typographia, pridie calendas Februarij, anno millesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo primo.
Note
Woodcut device on title-page.
Note
Initials; side-notes.
Note
Colophon: Ex typograph[ei]a Antonij Candidi.
Citation/references note
Baudrier, XII 465-486
Provenance
Note in ECL card catalogue: Bought 1596/7 for 20d. The audit book has "Geneva".
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on verso of title-page.
Binding
Late 16th/early 17th-century English blind-panelled brown calf binding; Eton College arms stamped in silver on both covers; four raised bands and alum-tawed sewing supports; blind double fillet spine decoration with lozenge pattern at head and tail; red morocco spine-label; remains of two pairs of clasps; red text block edges.
Copy-specific note
Previously Cb.7.17.
Subject
Alexander, 356 - 323 B.C the Great
Added entry--name
Blanc, Antoine, fl. 1571 - 1619 printer.
Added entry--place
France Lyon.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B32217