The history of Great Britaine . under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, warres, coines & seales: with ye successions, lives, acts & issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Cæsar, to our most gracious soueraigne King Iames. by Iohn Speed.
John Speed (1552? -1629)
Category
Books
Date
1611
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3026344
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],151-786p.,787-801 [i.e. 802] leaves, 803-894,[52]p. . ill.., ports.. (woodcuts) . fol.. Former shelfmark: G1-3. Annotations, some in seventeenth-century hand; marginal notes in index. Title page headed in manuscript 'Lancashire'. Provenance: Title page verso: inkstamp of H. Cavendish [Henry Cavendish (1731-1810)]. Inscription on verso of errata leaf: Tho: Lowther's book [probably Sir Thomas Lowther, 2nd Bt. Lowther, of Marske, co. Yorks (1699-1745), husband of Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Devonshire]. armorial bookplate "William VII Duke of Devonshire K.G. Chatsworth" [William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire (1808-1891)]. Binding: eighteenth-century? full calf; spine gilt-tooled; 6 raised bands; gilt-lettered on red spine label 'Speed's History of Great Britaine'
Makers and roles
John Speed (1552? -1629) Christoph Schweitzer