Ephemeris parliamentaria; . or, A faithfull register of the transactions in Parliament, in the third and fourth years of the reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles: containing the severall speeches, cases, and arguments of law transacted between His Majesty and both Houses. Together with the grand mysteries of the kingdome then in agitation.
England and Wales Parliament
Category
Books
Date
1654
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008437
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20],136,121-269,[3]p. ; fol. Running number: 1419. Marginal notes cropped. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front endleaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys]. Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century individual ink stamp letters on pastedown (crossed out in ink): "BOWEN WHITLEDGE". Pencil price on front endleaf: "-5-". Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century manuscript codes on front pastedown: "ij"; on front endleaf: "H2"; on rear endleaf: [1] "OE [underlined]"; [2] "1-1" in red ink. Binding: late seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf over boards, double blind fillet frames, roll tooling around the inner frame and on board edges, blind tooled cornerpieces; impressions of stamp letters on front cover; four raised bands, gilt tooled spine, gilt title tooled directly on to spine; red sprinkled edges. Upper board detached.
Makers and roles
England and Wales Parliament Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), author Francis Eglesfield, printer