A briefe explanation of the whole book of the Prouerbs of Salomon. By Robert Cleaver.
Robert Cleaver (1561-1625)
Category
Books
Date
1615
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3006994
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 217, 208-558 p. ; 4to. Running number: 2911. Provenance: manuscript initial "M." on front fly-leaf [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript marginal notes and underscoring, pp. 1-101. Manuscript inscriptions on final page and rear fly-leaf recto: all beginning "Samuell James his book", one continues "nouember 26 1704", one continues "nouember 27 1704", and two continue "1704". Manuscript inscription on rear fly-leaf recto: "Jonathan Hiscock 1700". Binding: seventeenth-century calf; blind thin thick thin fillet border; gilt chain roll on board edges; blind fillet panels on spine. Plain vellum binder's waste used as spine lining.
Makers and roles
Robert Cleaver (1561-1625) John Dod (1549-1645), author