Shelfmark
Ic3.2.17
Additional shelfmark
Ic3.2.18
Title
Epigrammatum delectus ex omnibus tum veteribus, tum recentioribus poetis accuratè decerptus: cum dissertatione de verâ pulchritudine & adumbratâ, ... Quibus subjungitur alterius delectûs specimen ex nuperis maximè poetis ... In usum Scholæ Etonensis.
Edition
Editio octava, nuperis longè emendatior.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : typis Gul. Bowyer, impensis Gul. Innys, ad insignia principis in cœmeterio D. Pauli., 1715.
Physical description
[48], 311, [1] ; [4], 20 p. : front. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Note
Compiled by Claude Lancelot, with a dissertation by Pierre Nicole to whom the whole work is sometimes attributed.
Note
The first leaf contains the engraved arms of Eton.
Note
An edition of 2000 copies.
Note
Signatures: A-Q¹².
Note
Signatures from Maslen & Lancaster.
Citation/references note
Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 270
Citation/references note
ESTC, T183110
Provenance
[Ic3.2.17] Eton College Library red and black book label.
Provenance
[Ic3.2.17] Ms. ?name inscription on front endpaper.
Provenance
[Ic3.2.17] Illegible ms. inscription in blue ink dated 1896 on front endpaper.
Provenance
[Ic3.2.17] Ms. inscription in English on leaf A recto.
Provenance
[Ic3.2.17] ?Ownbership ms inscription dated 1865 on leaf A verso.
Provenance
[Ic3.2.17] Name ms. inscription on title page and leaf A3.
Provenance
[Ic3.2.18] Eton College Library black book label.
Provenance
[Ic3.2.18] Armorial bookplate of Viscount Palmerston with a motto "Flecti non frangi" and label reading "East Sheen".
Provenance
[Ic3.2.18] Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "Henry Temple his book 1716".
Provenance
[Ic3.2.18] Booklabel of Joseph Frederick Burrell, recording donation to Eton College in 1983.
Binding
[Ic3.2.17] 18th century brown calf quarter binding; boards covered with marbled paper; spine covered with cloth (on top of calfskin); endbands; four raised bands; cord sewing supports.
Binding
[Ic3.2.18] 18th century brown calf with blind tooled concentric frame design; four raised bands; four cord sewing supports; red sprinkled edges;
Copy-specific note
[Ic3.2.17] Ms. inscriptions on rear endpaper.
Subject
Epigrams, Latin Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Bowyer, William, 1663 - 1737 printer.
Added entry--name
Innys, William, ? - -1756 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B37908