Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England. . In Latin and English verse. Wittily and merrily ... compos'd; ... and now at last made publick. To which is added, Bessy Bell.
Richard Brathwait (1588-1673)
Category
Books
Date
1716
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3006443
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 151, [9]p., [2] plates ; ill. (metal cut) ; 8vo. Running number: 1267. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Twentieth-century pencil note on front pastedown: "2nd ed.". Manuscript initial "D" on second front endleaf. Manuscript title on verso of second front endleaf in hand of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742): "Barnabes" [underlined]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled and plain brown sheepskin(?) over boards, blind-tooled to a Cambridge-style panel design with double-line frames and stamped flowers. Blind roll pattern on board edges. Four raised bands; no spine title or decoration. No endbands. Two supports laced in; pastedown with conjugate endleaf and second endleaf with stub pasted as guard beneath pastedown at both ends. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Brathwait (1588-1673)