Mores hominum = The manners of men : described in sixteen satyrs
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Mores hominum = The manners of men : described in sixteen satyrs
Other titles: Satires; Manners of men
Classmark: BC Case 43 JUV
Creator(s): Juvenal
Additional creator(s): Stapylton, Robert (1669) (Other); Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-1677) (Other); Lombart, Pierre (1612-1682) (Other); Barlow, Francis (1626?-1702) (Other); Streater, Robert (1624-1680) (Other); Danckerts, Johan (1615-1685) (Other)
Publisher: Printed by R. Hodgkinsonne
Publication city: London
Date(s): In the year 1660
Language: English
Size and medium: [22], 522, that is, 516 pages, [30] pages (pages [545]-[546] blank), [17] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/188223
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008697259705181
Description
The first edition of this translation (8vo, 1647) bore the title: Sixteen satyrs of, A survey of the manners and actions of mankind.
Ill., dated 1658-1659, engraved by Wencelaus Hollar after Johan Danckerts, Francis Barlow and Robert Streater; frontispiece port. engraved by Pierre Lombart. Plate 9 is found in two states, numbered 9 or 6.
Nos. 271-276 omitted in paging. P.47 is misnumbered 54, and vice-versa.
Each plate is accompanied by a leaf of descriptive letterpress in Latin verse (translated in the text), not included in the paging. The added illustrated engraved t.p. (2pi1) is also accompanied by single leaves of Latin (not included in the collation) and English descriptive letterpress (here designated pi1); these leaves are bound in various orders in surviving copies.
Includes index.
Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) J1280.
Additional description
Wanting: 4C2 (a blnak leaf at the end?). With bookplates of Frances Louisa Swayne and of the Society of the Sacred Mission, Kelham