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The booke of freendeship of Marcus Tullie Cicero.

Accession number
PML 196636
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published
London : Essex House Press, 1904.
Notes
Latin text has caption title: M. Tulli Ciceronis Laelius de amicitia liber ad T. Pomponium Atticum.
Colophon: Here ends Cicero's De amicitia, with the English translation of Sir John Harryngton, edited by E.D. Ross, & printed at the Essex House Press, Campden, Glos., 1904, under the care of C.R. Ashbee, by whom are the two blocks.
The English translation is that of John Harington, of Kelston, which was originally published in 1550. Cf. Brit. Mus. cat.
Text and translation on opposite pages numbered in duplicate.
Printed in red and black.
"150 copies and 10 on vellum."
PML copy is no. 10, on vellum.
Description
viii, 51, 51, [2] pages : portraits ; 23 cm
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library (acquired by 1908?).
Binding
Vellum.
Classification
Department