Shelfmark
Ic8.4.39
Author
Marcus Aurelius, 121 - 180 Emperor of Rome,
Uniform title
[Meditations. English]
Title
The thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : reprinted from the revised translation of George Long.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : George Bell and Sons, 1890.
Physical description
287 p. ; 17 cm.
Note
Title page printed in red and black.
Note
With half-title.
Provenance
Ms. notes on front pastedown and flyleaf, including the presentation inscription: "Gurney Lubbock from his tutor Lionel Ford, Election '91"; signature "J. Burrell, Grange Close, 25 October 1958 (bought from Alan J. Thomas of Bournemouth)".
Provenance
Stamp of Macmillan & Bowes, Cambridge on front pastedown.
Binding
Half-bound brown morocco and green marbled paper over ?millboards by Stoakley late (J.B.) Hawes. Covers decorated with gilt fillet to separate leather form paper. Spine with four raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools and titling ("Marcus Aurelius Antoninus"). Textblock untrimmed. Endleaves of marbled or undecorated paper, 2 leaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
A list of places in the hand of Burrell on lower flyleaf, presumably which he visited between 1958 and 1971.
Subject
Ethics.
Subject
Stoics.
Added entry--name
Long, George, 1800 - 1879 editor.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Macmillan and Bowes bookseller.
Added entry--name
Stoakley & Son binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B52058