A relation of a iourney begun an: Dom: 1610. : Foure bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning.
George Sandys (1578-1644)
Category
Books
Date
1621
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3013146
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 309, [3] p., [2] plates (1 folded) : ill. (metal cuts), maps ; fol. Imperfect: wanting the plate for D4v. Annotated with crosses on pp. 1, 3, 126; annotated with dots against the text throughout. Provenance: manuscript inscription on titlepage in a seventeenth-century hand: Thomas Lathum 1659. Armorial bookplate (after 1754), has come loose from front pastedown: Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754. Also used in books acquired by his successors]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards on five raised cords, single gilt fillet on spine, brown spine label, double blind fillet on covers, gilt roll on board edges. Original front pastedown torn away; bifoliuim for front flyleaves is loose.
Makers and roles
George Sandys (1578-1644), author Francis Delaram (1589/90 - 1627), engraver (printmaker)