An enquirie into, and detection of, the barbarous murther of the late Earl of Essex. . Or a vindication of that nobl' [sic] person, from the guilt and infamy of having destroy'd himslef.
Category
Books
Date
1684
Materials
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005115.5
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 76p. ; 4to. Running number: 1312. Bound with 6 other pamphlets; scraps of eighteenth-century paper inserted as bookmarks between pamphlets. Imperfect: wanting top half of pp. 69-70, and all after p. 72. Leaves up to D1 and after H1 torn. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript reference to this pamphlet on front pastedown in hand of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys: "5th pamphlet, all torn & Impf.". Binding: early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards; double blind fillet border, blind ruled and tooled central panel with blind-stamped fleuron cornerpieces. Blind roll pattern along board edges. Four raised bands; spine undecorated. Sewn on four supports, laced in. Two colour endbands with front beads; wants tailband. Pastedown on front inner board; pastedown and endleaf at end.