Bishop Burnet's History of his own time. ...
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) Bishop of Salisbury.
Category
Books
Date
1724
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3026652
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. . fol.. Large paper. Subscriber's copy: Viscount Tyrconnel in list of subscribers in vol. 2. Grangerized, with addition of engraved portraits throughout both volumes. MS note on verso of tp in v.2: 'The original manuscript of both volumes of this History will be deposited in the Cotton Library by / T. Burnett'.. Provenance: Brownlow arms on binding = 1st earl Brownlow. Bookplate: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Binding: Tan pigskin, gilt (nineteenth-century), with doublures. Arms in gilt on all boards.
Makers and roles
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) Bishop of Salisbury. Sir Thomas Burnet (1694-1753) Gilbert Burnet (1690-1726)