Shelfmark
Ie7.2.05
Author
Title
Prefaces to the first editions of the Greek and Roman classics and of the sacred Scriptures / collected and edited by Beriah Botfield.
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Præfationes et epistolæ editionibus principibus auctorum veterum præpositæ
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Cantabrigiae : Henry George Bohn; e prelo academico [C.J. Clay], 1861.
Physical description
lxxvi, 674 p. ; 29 cm.
Note
"Arranged ... in order of their publication."
Note
Introduction in English, prefaces in Latin and Greek.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College on front lining paper.
Binding
19th-century quarter-bound maroon paper and dark green morocco over ?paste/millboards. Covers undecorated. sPine flat, decortaed with gilt titling ("Prefaces to editiones principes -- Botfield"). Textblock trimmed and rounded. Endpapers of undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Some ms. notes in pencil scattered throughout and especially around the index. Loose ms. notes of author with page references.
Subject
Bible Prefaces.
Subject
Prefaces.
Subject
Printing History.
Subject
Incunabula Bibliography.
Subject
Classical literature First editions Bibliography.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Language code
lat eng grc
Identifier
B52994