A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent. / By William Somner. Publish'd by James Brome, M.A. rector of Cheriton, and chaplain to the Cinque-Ports. To which is prefixt the life of Mr. Somner.
William Somner (1598-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1693
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3010863
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 118, [2], 117, [15] p. : port. ; 8vo. Annotated in first sequence on pp. 13, 26, 50, 65-6 in Tho. Smith’s hand; annotated with crosses and lines on pp. 32, 67-8, 76. Provenance: manuscript inscription on titlepage in an eighteenth-century hand: Tho. Smith. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, remains of gilt spine tooling, spine title (label?) missing, double blind fillet and small cornerpieces on covers, gilt roll on board edges, red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
William Somner (1598-1669) James Brome (d.1719) White Kennett (1660-1728) Bishop of Peterborough