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Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex..
Portion of title: De rerum natura
Londini : In aedibus Ricardi Taylor et Socii, M DCCC XIII. [1813]
295, [1] p. ; 27 cm. (4to)
Colophon: Londini typis Ricardi Taylor et Socii M DCC XIII. Cura Ricardi Taylor.
Printer's device on title page and colophon; the latter includes motto "alere flammam".
[Copy 1] Ms. inscription on front free endpaper verso: "Samuel Best Eton 1822 The gift of the Rev[ere]nd doctor Keate".
[Copy 2] Ms. note on second front flyleaf recto: "The Gift of Dʳ Keate, Head Master of Eton College, to [?] Ellis Coleridge, at his leaving Eton.". In a different but contemporary ink/hand below: "Fred.ᵏ J. Coleridge. Cadbury. 1870."
[Copy 3] Ms. Inscription on the verso of the front flyleaf: ' Privately printed for Dr. Keate Master of Harrow as a gift book. Lowndes'.
[Copy 3] Note in pencil on the front pastedown: 'bought 1902'.
[Copy 3] Bookplate of Eton college on the front pastedown.
[Copy 4] Ms. inscription on the second front flyleaf: 'Arthur French the gift of the Rev. Doctor Keate Head Master of Eton College'.
[Copy 4] Bookplate recording the donation of the book from John Leslie (1952) and bookplate of Eton School Library on the front pastedown.
[Copy 5] Ms. inscription on the second flyleaf: 'Henry Morris from Dr Keate November 26 1815'.
[Copy 1] 19th century light brown calf binding; gold tooled ornament around the perimeter; marbled edges; marbled endpapers; rebacked in 20th century calf.
[Copy 2] 19th-century brown calfskin on millboards. Covers decorated with single and double fillets to form a panel and border; gilt roll to form a panel; transversal gilt fillets on corners of board-edges and turn-ins (where they are faded). Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt tools, fillets, rolls, and titling ("Lucretius"). Textblock trimmed and marbled. Endpapers of marbled paper (pastedowns and one flyleaf); additional flyleaf of undecorated modern paper at both ends of the textblock.
[Copy 3] 19th century binding with gold fillets and a blind roll to form a frame on covers; five raised bands with gold decorations and gold titling on spine; marbled edges; one additional flyleaf at the beginning and one at the end of the volume.
[Copy 4] 19th century binding with gold fillets and gold roll to form a frame on covers; five raised bands with gold decorations and gold titling on spine; marbled edges; brown endleaves; one additional flyleaf at the beginning and at the end of the volume.
[Copy 5] 19th century binding with gold fillets and a blind roll to form a frame on covers; five raised bands with gold decorations and gold titling on spine; marbled edges; marbled endleaves; one additional flyleaf at the beginning and six at the end of the volume.
Philosophy, Ancient Poetry.
Latin poetry.
Didactic poetry, Latin.
Taylor, Richard, 1781 - 1858 printer.
Keate, John, 1773 - 1852 former owner.
Leslie, John, 1857 - 1944 former owner.
England London.
lat
B34835