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Lucretius on life and death : in the metre of Omar Khayyám / by W.H. Mallock.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Vilain-Wieck Collection Mosher 191
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucretius Carus, Titus.
- 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
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