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Andreas Schottus (1552-1629)
Category
Books
Date
1603 - 1608
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008472
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v.,[2] folded plates . maps., ill.. (metal cut) . fol... Vols. 1-2 and 4 only. Vol. 1 is wanting the title page, the Ortelius map, all before p. 1, and all after p. [76]. Vol. 2: title page verso lacks the privilege; contains two copies of sigs. B3-4; 16C manuscript note between pp. 42-43. Vol. 4: index misbound between pp. 468-9. Old Newbattle Abbey shelfmarks: b.2.19; L.2.16 [crossed through] b.2.20; e.4.3. Provenance: Vol. 1 bookplate: Earl of Ancram (sun under motto and coronet). Vol. 2: armorial centrepiece and intials on covers of Thomas Henryson; bookplate: The Most Honble. William Marquiss of Lothian (armorial). Manuscript on title pages to vols. 2 & 4 in a seventeenth-century hand: THenryson [Sir Thomas Henryson, Lord Chesters, d. 1638]. Vol. 4: Lothian bookplate (anonymous nineteenth-century? armorial). Binding: Vol. 1: eighteenth-century pale brown calf (imprint of previous centrepiece underneath). Vol. 2: mid brown calf, centrepiece, blind tooling, manuscript vellum waste at front. Vol. 4: seventeenth-century dark brown calf, triple blind fillet. Vols. 1-2 have spine labels with zig-zag roll by James Scott of Edinburgh c. 1778 (see Maggs catalogue no. 1293, 2000).
Makers and roles
Andreas Schottus (1552-1629)