A restitution of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. . Concerning the most noble, and renowned English nation.
Richard Verstegan (1550-1640)
Category
Books
Date
1634
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3006060
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 338, [14]p. ill. (metal cut) ; 4to. Running number: 1253. Sig. 2H4 torn. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript inscriptions on front endleaf: [1] former shelfmark in pencil in nineteenth-century[?] hand "14.G.18"; [2] in eighteenth-century hand "9 [underlined and above] J: Saunders."; [3] in twentieth-century hand "by R. Rowlands STC. 21363"; [4] eighteenth-century[?] pen, indecipherable. Seventeenth-century[?] manuscript monogram at head of title page. Manuscript completion of author's name on title page in hand of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742). Manuscript addition of foliation to contents in seventeenth-century[?] hand. Pencil annotation p. 144; pen correction p. 262. Price code[?] in pen in eighteenth-century hand on rear endleaf: "T 0 [division line] 0". Binding: late seventeenth-century full calf over boards with triple blind fillet to form a border. Gilt line along board edges. Recessed thongs; smooth spine with double blind lines to form eight compartments. Red endbands. Four supports laced in; no pastedown, endleaf with sixteenth-century vellum manuscript waste as stub support at both ends. Densely sprinkled red edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Verstegan (1550-1640) Norton, John, printer Norton, Joyce, bookseller Whitaker, Richard, bookseller