Details

Subject(s)

• Poetry, Ancient—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Writer of introduction

• Gournay, Marie Le Jars de, 1565-1645 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Bourriquant, Fleury, active 1603-1628 [Browse]

Former owner

• Barbier, Jean-Paul, 1948- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Bookplates (Provenance) [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C. Works. Selections. 1619. [Browse]
• Tacitus, Cornelius. Works. Selections. French. 1619. [Browse]

Medium/​Support

8vo. rdabf

Notes

• Wood engraved head-pieces and capitals; wood engraved illustration on title page.
• Princeton copy 1 Pasted-down printed cancel slip correcting a dropped word on p. 104, preliminary page a3v with a dropped letter and signs of another, now lost, cancel slip.

Binding note

Princeton copy 1 20th-century retrospective binding of gold and blind-tooled crushed brown morocco, gilt edges.

Provenance

Princeton copy 1 BB monogram inkstamp on rear pastedown; Jean-Paul Barbier, bookplate.

OCLC

503913824

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