Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. . Familiar letters domestic and forren. Divided into sundry sections, partly historicall, politicall, philosophicall.
James Howell (1594?-1666)
Category
Books
Date
1655
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005812
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24],309,[1];[4],115,[19];[4],38,[6];[8],126,[10]p. ; 8vo. Running number: 1323. Wants engraved title page before vol. 1. Vol. 4: sig. B is misbound before title page; leaf K2 signed I2. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire (entered in catalogue of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys). Seventeenth-century manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "U.2.21". Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled and plain calf over boards blind tooled to a Cambridge-style panelled design. Gilt roll pattern on board edges (worn). Five raised bands; gilt title on leather label. Endbands; wants headband. Pastedown with guard and endleaves at both ends. Red sprinkled edges. In book shoe.
Makers and roles
James Howell (1594?-1666) Humphrey Moseley (d.1661), publisher