Shelfmark
Gi.6.38
Author
Uniform title
[Iliad. Latin and Greek]
Title
Homērou Ilias, = Homeri Ilias: id est, de rebus ad Trojam gestis.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : Typis Tho. Wood, prostant apud D. Midwinter, B. Sprint, A. Bettesworth & C. Hitch, B. Motte, A. Ward, & T. Longman., MDCCXXXVI. [1736]
Physical description
[2], 733, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Language
Parallel Latin and Greek texts.
Note
The first two words of the title are transliterated from the Greek.
Note
Signatures: [pi]² A-2Z⁸.
Note
Booksellers' advertisement on last page.
Citation/references note
ESTC, N33184
Provenance
20th-century black bookplate of Eton College Library with college crest and initials "RS" (Reynolds Stone) on front pastedown. Added ms. note: "Presented June 1979 by Mr James Fawcett, Professor of International Law King's College, London".
Provenance
Ms. note on front flyleaf: "Charles [?]'s Book : 1739".
Binding
18th-century speckled sheepskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double fillets to form a border and a roll on the spine's margin; blind roll on board edges. Spine with five raised bands, undecorated; label missing. Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Pastedowns of undecorated laid paper; no flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: Gm.6.5.
Subject
Homer Iliad.
Added entry--name
Wood, Thomas, active 1708 - 1748 printer.
Added entry--name
Midwinter, Daniel, active 1698 - 1725 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Sprint, John, ? - -1729 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Bettesworth, Arthur, ? - -1739 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Hitch, Charles, ? - -1764 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Motte, Benjamin, ? - -1738 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Ward, Aaron, ? - -1747 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Longman, Thomas, 1699 - 1755 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Fawcett, J. E. S. (James Edmund Sandford), 1913 - 1991 (James Edmund Sandford), former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B51243