The survey and antiquity of the towns of Stamford . in the County of Lincoln and Tottenham-High-Cross in Middlesex. Together with the turnament of Tottenham: or, the wooing, winning, and wedding of Tibbe the Reeu's daughter there.
Richard Butcher
Category
Books
Date
1717 - 1718
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3002219
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 158, [2]p. ill. (metal cut). 8vo. Running number: 1211. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front flyleaf: [1] "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys]; [2] initials [indecipherable, struck through]. Verso of front flyleaf inscribed "Butcher [underlined]" [i.e. title note for anonymous works entered by Mitchell in his catalogue of Elly's library]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, blind-tooled to a Cambridge panel design; gilt roll pattern on board edges; five raised bands, spine otherwise undecorated; endbands worked with brown and cream threads; three supports laced-in; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Butcher, author