The old, old, very old man: or, The age and long life of Thomas Par, the son of Iohn Parr of Winnington in the parish of Alberbury; in the county of Salop, (or Shropshire) : who was borne in the raigne of King Edward the fourth, in the yeare 1483. Hee lived 152 yeares, nine monthes and odd dayes, and departed this life at Westminster the 15 of Novem. 1635, and is now buried in the Abby at Westminster. His manner of life and conversation in so long a pilgrimage; his marriages, and his bringing up to London, about the end of September last. 1635. Whereunto is added a postscript, shewing the many remarkable accidents that hapned in the life of this old man. Written by Iohn Taylor.
John Taylor (1580-1653)
Category
Books
Date
1635
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005887
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32] p. : port. (woodcut) ; 4to. Running number: 7421. Imperfect: wanting final leaf D4. The missing text has been supplied in manuscript in a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century hand on two folded leaves bound-in at the rear. Frontispiece portrait laid down on blank leaf. Provenance: manuscript initials[?] at foot of leaf C2r: "RR". Binding: eighteenth-century quarter-bound calf with light blue paper (stained and discoloured) over boards; spine cracked, partially missing.
Makers and roles
John Taylor (1580-1653), author