Lex parliamentaria: . or, a treatise of the law and custom of the parliaments of England. By G.P. Esq; with an appendix of a case in Parliament between Sir Francis Goodwyn and Sir John Fortesque, for the knights place for the county of Bucks, I Jac. I. From an original French manuscript, translated into English. Licensed Decemb. 6. 1689.
George Philips (1599-1696)
Category
Books
Date
1690
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3019217
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],320,[4]p. . 8vo. The two advertisement leaves are printed as A7-8 at end of the preliminaries.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate on title-page verso: John Hervey of Ickworth in Com. Suff. Esqr. 1698. [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)]. Armorial bookplate on verso of leaf A2: The Right Honble. John Lord Hervey created Baron of Ickworth in Com. Suff. March the 23d. 1702. [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)]. Marginalia and underscorings in pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751).. Binding: Eighteenth-century calf binding; double blind fillet border; gilt roll on board edges. Rebacked in blind-tooled calf, with gilt title label and date stamp.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
George Philips (1599-1696) George Petyt