The antiquities of Berkshire.
Elias Ashmole (1617-1692)
Category
Books
Date
1719
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3009601
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v.,plates . ill..,port..,map . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Provenance: Eighteenth-century ink marginalia. On v. 1 flyleaves: extensive eighteenth-century ink notes, including 2 pages of transcribed inscriptions from the church of Shillingford, Berkshire, with added ink notes in a different hand (?). Apparently by Sir Isaac Heard (1730-1822), Garter Principal King of Arms: cf. later note]. Pencil inscription on v. 1 flyleaf: With MS notes by the late Sir I. Heard [ ] (illegible) G. D. [George Dunn?] July 1892. Pencil note at end of v. 1: 'Collated perfect H. Goodson April 17 / 89'. Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century armorial bookplate: T. Thornhill (Franks 29370). Twentieth-century (?) gilt shield bookplate on red paper, unlettered, with armorial showing a fox rampant (as yet unidentified). Twentieth-century book label: From the library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead. [George Dunn (d. 1912?), noted collector]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on v. 1 flyleaf in Norris's hand: Stoke Edith Library S. [i.e. Sotheby's] 21/6 48 Lot 6 Đ14 [Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, home of Foley family?]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full straight-grained red morocco over boards; gilt fillets and cornerpieces to form a frame; gilt-panelled spine, with title 'Ashmole's Berkshire'; sewn on five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Elias Ashmole (1617-1692)