Lucretius on life and death : in the metre of Omar Khayyám / by W.H. Mallock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucretius Carus, Titus.

Contributor:

Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell), 1849-1923.

Mosher, Thomas Bird, 1852-1923, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mosher Press (1912-1923)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De rerum natura. Selections. English & Latin

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Didactic poetry, Latin--Translations into English.

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Physical Description:

xxiii, 71 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 19 cm

Other Title:

On life and death

Place of Publication:

Portland, Me. : Thomas Bird Mosher, MDCCCCXIX [1919]

Contents:

Preface

Lucretius on life and death

Passages from Lucretius "De rerum natura"

Bibliographical note.

Notes:

"The following poem ... can hardly be called a translation in the usual acceptation of the word ... it is his moral teaching which I have mainly attempted to reproduce."--Pref.

"Nine hundred and twenty-five copies of this book have been printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed"--verso of half t.p.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy in blue grey paper binding with emobssed stamp on upper cover; deckled edges with some pages unopened.

Vilain-Wieck collection copies are from the Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Mosher Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Vilain-Wieck collection copy 2 in case.

Cited in:

Bishop, P.R. Mosher, 223

Hatch, B.L. Mosher, 668

Contains:

Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura. Selections. English & Latin

OCLC:

5468081