LWL 49 2091: Notes by Autonius Thysices. and Original vellum, rebacked. Bookplate 1. Press-mark L.5.6. Name on fly-leaf: 'J. Knight.' With a half-length pencil sketch of a man, possibly by Horace Walpole, drawn inside back cover.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., author
Published / Created:
Mcccclxxxxiii die xviii Iulii [18 July 1493]
Call Number:
2017 +316
Image Count:
320
Alternative Title:
Works. 1493 and Tragoediae
Description:
BEIN 2017 +316: Capitals supplied in red or blue. Manuscript note on free back endpaper: Collated complete pp. B. Quaritch Ltd. [undeciphered initials]., BEIN 2017 +316: Provenance: 1. Antonio Pillone, 2. Odorico Pillone, 3. Venetian dealer Paolo Maresio Bazolle purchased from the Pillone family in 1874 and sold to 4. Sir Thomas Brooke (armorial bookplate) sold by his heirs in 1957 to 5. Pierre Berès (Bookplate: Libro no [in manuscript: 55] de la Bibliothèque Pillone, Pierre Berès), 6. Helmut Friedlaender (bookplate "HNF"; sale Christie's NY, 23 April 2001, lot 117). Acquired by the Beinecke Library from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., BEIN 2017 +316: Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled brown goatskin over thin wooden boards, bound for Antonio Pillone by Hobson's Belluno Binder A. Sides panelled within triple fillets, outer and central compartments adorned with widely spaced small 4- and 5-petalled rosette tools, two inner borders composed respectively of a repeated blossom and leaf tool and leafy tool (see Hobson tools 1, 2, 7 and 11). Spine with two double raised bands tooled with intersecting triple fillets, 4 (of 10) brass bosses, 1 (of 2) clasps and 2 catches. Fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio of Seneca with abbreviated name and title ("SEN T") at bottom., BEIN Zi +4994: For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. Manuscript marginal notes. Worm-eaten, with some damage to text. Bound in old limp vellum, with flap, oriental style, and leather strap; part of the strap, presumably with buckle, missing. Manuscript notes: fol. 2a: "Es dela Libr1. de S. Miguel de los Reyes."; fol. 1a: "This book was given to me by Dr. Pedro Perez the antiquarian of Valencia May 8th 1844. Q. Ayshford Sanford." Dr. Perez's visiting card pasted on fol. 1a. 31 cm., Title from caption of text on leaf I (a1); imprint from colophon., Commentaries by Gellio Bernardino Marmitta and Daniel Caietanus., Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁸ c-z⁶ &⁴ (A1 blank)., and Woodcut initials, also capital-spaces with guide-letters.
Bound in Vellum. Bookplate 1. Signature: Hor. Walpole 1740. Press-mark B.3.13, altered to P.31. Name on the fly-leaf: T. Jones, 1873. With a pencil sketch of a man, possibly by Horace Walpole, on end flyleaf.
Reflections on a flower-garden in a letter to a lady
Description:
In two parts, with separate titlepages, pagination and register., The second part is entitled 'Reflections on a flower-garden in a letter to a lady'., Each part has a final leaf of errata., Tipped in: Two small engravings of Hervey from Cooke's Classics., Tipped in: Two drawings. A wash drawing with pen and ink of a memorial to Anne Stonhouse; a pen and ink frontispiece with caption title: "He gave himself a ransom for all"., and With clipping (19th century) and unidentified ms. notes.
Publisher:
Printed for J. and J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-yard; and J. Leake, at Bath
Subject (Topic):
Death, Spiritual life, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
BEIN Za C837 927n copy 1: Presentation ins. to Carl Van Vechten from Miguel Covarrubias. Bookplate of Carl Van Vechten. Original dust jacket.
Publisher:
A.A. Knopf,
Subject (Name):
Barton, Ralph, 1891-1931, Covarrubias, Miguel,--1904-1957--Original art, Covarrubias, Miguel,--1904-1957--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten, Crowninshield, Frank, 1872-1947, Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Bookplate, and Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from M. Covarrubias
Subject (Topic):
African Americans in art, African Americans--Caricatures and cartoons, and Blacks--Caricatures and cartoons
BEIN 2017 +313: Capital spaces with manuscript guide-letters. Capitals supplied in red or blue. Some Latin manuscript marginal notes. Contempory note on author and his times on front flyleaf., BEIN 2017 +313: Provenance: 1. Antonio Pillone, 2. Odorico Pillone, 3. Venetian dealer Paolo Maresio Bazolle purchased from the Pillone family in 1874 and sold to 4. Sir Thomas Brooke (armorial bookplate) sold by his heirs in 1957 to 5. Pierre Berès (Bookplate: Libro no [in manuscript: 58] de la Bibliothèque Pillone, Pierre Berès). Acquired by the Beinecke Library from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., BEIN 2017 +313: Binding: Contemporary Italian goatskin over wooden boards, blind-tooled by Belluno binder A (see Hobson tools 3, 7 and 10), 7 (of 10) bosses, 2 clasps and catches, vellum endleaves. Title lettered in ink on upper cover "iulii [cor.tacitus] agricolae vita." Fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio of Tacitus with his name abbreviated at bottom: COR T. See Hobson, A. "Pillone library." in Book collector, v. 7 (1958), 28-37., BEIN Zi +5838 Copy 1: Book-plate of Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex. A few manuscript notes in margins. Ff. 160 (c.sig.y10, blank), 175-176 (c.sigs.&⁷⁻⁸, &8 blank) and 188 (c.sig.B6, blank) wanting; the text of f. 175a has been supplied in manuscript on a sheet of paper pasted at the bottom of f. 174b. Slightly water-stained., BEIN Zi +5838 Copy 2: Book-plate with the letters B and O in center. From the library of Dean Clarence W. Mendell. 27 cm. Ff. 1, 160 (c.sig.y10, blank), 176 (c.sig.&8, blank) and 188 (c.sig.B6, blank) wanting. Water-stained, worm-holes in the beginning; f. 2 mended. Old polished calf binding, stamped in gold., Ff. 160 (c.sig.y10), 175 b (c.sig.&7), 176 (c.sig.&8), 187b (c.sig.B5) and 188 (c.sig.B6) blank., The second, third, and fourth sheets of quire a are signed a¹⁻³, the rest of the quire being unsigned., Capital spaces blank., and Hain gives no imprint or date; Proctor leaved the book undated; Copinger and Voullième (in the Bonn catalogue) ascribe the printing to Christophorus Valdarfer, between 1475 and 1480, but in the Berlin Catalogue Voullième names Zarotus as printer and omits the date; Castan and Brunet date the book between 1475 and 1480, but name no printer; Collijn dates the book at about 1490; The Brit. museum cat. dates the book about 1487.
First image, 'Painting after life' shows a skeleton (death) seated before an easel painting a portrait of the obese old man seated opposite and holding a cane. The subject is seated against a blank screen; a portfolio of other works is leaning against the screen. Beside the 'artist' is a box of paints and artist supplies and Second image, 'Death staring shipwrecked sailors in the face!!!', shows a skeleton (right) seated on a rock with his head resting in his hands, elbows on his knees as he stares at two shipwrecked sailors (left) on a beach
Alternative Title:
Death staring shipwrecked sailors in the face!!!
Description:
Each print titled below., Lewis Walpole Library: On the verso: an autograph letter from Ebenezer Gerard in Liverpool to Samuel Taylor Liverpool, dated 1826 February 5, in reference to "Prose by a poet" (by Montgomery James) which he compares to his own efforts since his illness, with the address incorporating watercolor and rebus material., Painting after life referencing Hogarth?, and For further information, consult library staff.
In an outdoor setting, Lord North and Edmund Burke look down at Charles Fox who stands knee-deep in a hole in the ground. All are in mourning clothes. Fox expresses fear of remaining in "this terrible Pitt" forever. An angry North, stamping his foot, expresses disillusionment in their coalition, while a quiet Burke decides to disassociate himself from Fox
Alternative Title:
Fox in a pitt and Fox in a pit
Description:
Title from item., The word "Fox" appears in the form of a rebus., and Mounted to 28 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by E. Hedges, No. 92 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government and Mourning clothing & dress
