Shelfmark
Ib2.3.23
Title
Translations chiefly from the Greek anthology, with tales and miscellaneous poems.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for Richard Phillips ... and sold by W. Deighton, Cambridge, and Parker and Hanwell, Oxford. by J. M'Creery, Black-horse-court, Fleet-street, 1806.
Physical description
[4], lv, [5], 233, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Note
Translated by R. Bland and J.H. Merivale.
Note
With a half-title page.
Note
Errata slip tipped in after title page.
Note
Extract from a bookseller's catalogue with bibliographical details of the work pasted on front free endpaper verso.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
Ms. inscription on front flyleaf: "L. Peacock".
Binding
19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge; foredge and bottom edge untrimmed.
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotation on p.21 under the poem "The complaint of Danae": "by Ld. Denman when at Eton".
Added entry--name
Bland, Robert, 1779? - 1825 translator.
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Merivale, John Herman, 1779 - 1844 translator.
Added entry--name
Deighton, J. (John), fl. 1786 - 1812 bookseller.
Added entry--name
M'Creery, John, ? - - 1825 pribnter.
Added entry--name
Hanwell and Parker bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Identifier
B34783