En.6.09
[De rerum natura.]
Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex.
Portion of title: De rerum natura libri sex
Londini: : Ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts., MDCCXIII. [1713]
[24], 214, [202] p. : ill. ; 12mo.
With an index.
Page 73 correctly numbered.
Ordinary paper issue. Height = 14.5-15 cm.; gutter = 9-10 mm.
Engr. frontispiece, signed "L.Laguerre inv. Lud du Guernier sculp.".
Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Title page printed in red and black, with vignette.
Edited by Michael Maittaire.
Gordon, 110
ESTC, N1181
Inscription on t.p.: Aedes. Xti Alumn:
Inscription on front pastedown: W Lamb -- Doctor Langfords --- Feb 9 1793.
Armorial bookplate of the Lamb family of Brocket Hall.
Booklabel of Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, G.C.B.
Contemporary sprinkled calf; blind tooled bead and carnation rolls forming frames, with large fleurons at the corners of the outermost; author written in ink on the spine; red sprinkled edges.
Science, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Philosophy, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Watts, John, ? - -1763 printer.
Tonson, Jacob, 1656? - 1736 printer.
Maittaire, Michael, 1667 - 1747 editor.
Du Guernier, Louis, 1677 - 1716 engraver.
Laguerre, Louis, 1663 - 1721 artist.
Lamb family former owners.
Kerr, Walter Talbot, 1839 - 1927 former owner.
England London.
lat
B33480