The government of the tongue
Richard Allestree (1619 - 1681)
Category
Books
Date
1675
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038888.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],224p., [1] leaf of plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Previous shelfmark: F.3.7(1). Bound with Allestree's "The art of contentment" (1675). Not identified in 1796 inventory. Christies, 21 June, 2004, lot 618.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914. manuscript shelfmark on front pastedown: "B.6. Divinity. RM" [possibly Robert Myddelton (1678-1733)].. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double blind fillet border, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll on board edges; blind fillets on spine.
Makers and roles
Richard Allestree (1619 - 1681) John Fell (1625-1686) Bishop of Oxford Humphrey Henchman (1592-1675) Bishop of London Dorothy Coventry, Lady Pakington (1679) Richard Sterne (1596?-1683) Archbishop of York