Villare Anglicum: . or a vievv of the tovvnes of England. Collected by the appointment of Sir Henry Spelman Knight.
Sir Henry Spelman (1564-1641)
Category
Books
Date
1656
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3002209
Summary
Bibliographic description
[382] p. ; 4to. Running number: 1203. Lower leaf of title page torn, no loss of text. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript inscriptions on front pastedown: [1] former shelfmark "K.2.12."; [2] former shelfmark "34.F.20."; [3] "Co. M." ["M." underlined]. Title page marked beneath coats of arms "S.(?)", defaced with black ink. Binding: seventeenth-century full sheepskin(?) over pasteboard with double blind fillet border and double blind fillet parallel to spine. Single gilt lines along board edges (rubbed). Recessed cords; smooth spine with double blind lines to form three compartments; paper label with manuscript title adhered to spine (delaminated). Head and tail of spine worn; endbands lost. Paper pastedown and one free endleaf at both ends, front endleaf torn; three supports laced-in. Red sprinkled edges. Worm holes to lower section of leaves from pastedown to pastedown.
Makers and roles
Sir Henry Spelman (1564-1641) Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654) Richard Hodgkinson (fl.1624-1668), printer