Origines juridiciales; or, Historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of tryal, punishment in cases criminal, law-writers, law-books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of serjeant, Innes of court and chancery. Also a chronologie of the lord chancellors and keepers of the great seal, lord treasurers, justices itinerant, justices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas, barons of the Exchequer, masters of the rolls, Kings attorneys and sollicitors, and serjeants at law. By Sir William Dugdale, Kt. now Garter, Principal King of Arms.
Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686)
Category
Books
Date
1680
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3009112
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 336, [4], 122, [2] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms, ports. ; fol. With [8] leaves of plates. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham II (1717-1761)]. Early armorial bookplate (Franks 8788 or *267) on verso of title page: William Dobyns of Lincolns-Inn Esqr. [i.e. William Dobyns (d. 1709), father-in-law of Ashe Windham (1673-1749) of Felbrigg]. Manuscript former shelfmarks in pencil on verso of front free endpaper: "Q7" (crossed out) and "P7". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto five supports; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Red burnished textblock edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686), author William Faithorne, The Elder (London c.1616 - London 1691), engraver (printmaker) Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 - London 1677), engraver (printmaker) David Loggan (Gdańsk c.1634 – London 1692), engraver (printmaker) Robert White (London 1645 - London 1703), engraver (printmaker)