The institution, laws & ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter. Collected and digested into one body by Elias Ashmole of the Middle-Temple Esq; Windesor Herald at Arms. A work furnished with variety of matter, relating to honor and nobleese.
Elias Ashmole (1617-1692)
Category
Books
Date
1672
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3026657
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 130, 135-136, 149-720, [104] p., [47] leaves of plates (19 single (1 folded), 14 double) : ill., coats of arms, ports. ; fol. Former shelfmark: 5.k.29. Running number: 1392. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript prices on front endpapers, scribbled over in ink and illegible. Manuscript number code on rear pastedown: "/15.4". Binding: seventeenth-century full calf (rubbed); sewn on six sewing supports; double blind fillet border; gilt dotted roll pattern along board edges; rebacked (sometime after 2002) in plain tan calf, with gilt title on red goatskin label; marbled textblock edges. Original endpapers repaired and remounted.
Makers and roles
Elias Ashmole (1617-1692), author Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 - London 1677), engraver (printmaker) William Sherwin (Wellington 1645 - 1711), engraver (printmaker)