Bishop Burnet's history of his own time: from the Restoration of Charles II. to the treaty of peace at Utrecht, in the reign of Queen Anne.
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) Bishop of Salisbury.
Category
Books
Date
c. 1840
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 3096281
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, xvi, 949, [1] p., 1 leaf of plates . ill., port.. . 8vo. Provenance: Inscribed in coloured gothic calligraphy on front free-endpaper recto: 'Mary'; inscribed in ink on half-title: 'Mary Whitmore Jones'. Binding: Nineteenth-century green calf, gilt and blind fillets to form a border, gilt-tooled edges, blind-tooled turn-ins. Five raised bands, gilt-decorated spine compartments, blind-lettered spine-label. Marbled edges and endpapers.
Makers and roles
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) Bishop of Salisbury.