BIB_ID
118290
Accession number
MA 456
Display Date
undated [17th or 18th century?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (ca. 175 p.), bound ; 29.8 cm
Notes
Formerly thought to be in the autograph of Jonathan Swift.
Includes an unsigned presentation inscription to Richard Reynolds on the front cover: "To / The Right Revd. / Father in God, Richard / Lord Bishop of Lincoln, / at his Palace of Buckden, / in / Huntingdonshire / Most humbly / presents --"
Includes an unsigned presentation inscription to Richard Reynolds on the front cover: "To / The Right Revd. / Father in God, Richard / Lord Bishop of Lincoln, / at his Palace of Buckden, / in / Huntingdonshire / Most humbly / presents --"
Provenance
Presentation inscription to Richard Reynolds, bishop of Lincoln; ex-libris of David Garrick; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1907.
Summary
Contains A privy to poets; Caesar's commentary on the war in Gaul, excerpts from Books I-V, with translations into English; Penseés ingenieuses recueilies par le P. B. [François Berthod?], excerpts in English.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.5 cm)
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