The antiquities of Berkshire.
Elias Ashmole (1617-1692)
Category
Books
Date
1719
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3009599.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1, plates . ill.,port.,map ; 8vo. Running number: 1416. Imperfect: wanting folded map, stub remaining. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript note on front endleaf: "M. 3. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys]. Manuscript note on verso of second front endleaf: "JBridges by subscription 1719 to yr Rd --- Curle 3 Vol.- 2 half G. en blanc". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf over boards, double gilt fillet frame; gilt roll pattern along board edges; six raised bands, gilt tooled spine with gilt title tooled directly on to spine; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Elias Ashmole (1617-1692), author Edmund Curll (1675 - 1747), printer