Accession number
PML 66364
Creator
Virgil.
Published
London : Printed by Thomas Warren for the author, and are to be had at his house in Kings-head Court in Shoe-lane, 1654.
Credit line
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1975
Notes
Added leaf with full-page, colored arms of the Earls of Kent as first fly leaf.
Full-page engravings are included in collation and in pagination.
Illustrations, plates portrait, double map, head and tailpieces, and initials engraved by W. Hollar, W. Faithorne and P. Lombart, mostly after drawings by F. Cleyn.
Plates: (1) portrait; (2) "Scalig. Poet. L.3." facing portrait; and 3 others facing p. 1, p. 310, and 446; (6) the double-page map is inserted between Y1 and Y2 (unsigned, but itself facing Y3, p. 165).
Title page setting: "adorn'd"; initial on leaf A3r depicts three female figures and a tree.
Full-page engravings are included in collation and in pagination.
Illustrations, plates portrait, double map, head and tailpieces, and initials engraved by W. Hollar, W. Faithorne and P. Lombart, mostly after drawings by F. Cleyn.
Plates: (1) portrait; (2) "Scalig. Poet. L.3." facing portrait; and 3 others facing p. 1, p. 310, and 446; (6) the double-page map is inserted between Y1 and Y2 (unsigned, but itself facing Y3, p. 165).
Title page setting: "adorn'd"; initial on leaf A3r depicts three female figures and a tree.
Description
[8] p., 488, 499-586 p. [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports.,map, plates ; 42 cm
Provenance
Engraved, armorial bookplates of Anthony Earle of Kent, 1702, and Thoms Philip Earl de Grey, Wrest Park.
Binding
English 17th century panelled stained calf, gilt; red spiine label.
Classification
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