Les reports des cases & matters en ley, . resolves & adjudges en les courts del roy en Ireland: collect & digest per Sir John Davis chivaler, atturney generall del roy en cest realm. [...].
Sir John Davies (bap.1569 - 1626)
Category
Books
Date
1674
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3048156
Summary
Bibliographic description
[15],99 leaves p. . fol... Identified in 1768 catalogue: D.2. Imperfect: wanting sig. [para]1 (probably an initial blank? Probably lost in reback?). Bound with 'Une exact table al report de Sir John Davys' (London: 1677). manuscript shelfmarks on title page: B.7 [crossed through] C.7 [posibly Enville shelfmarks?]. Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown: Armorial, Grey and Booth quarterings impaling Cavendish-Bentinck: George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford & 1st earl of Warrington (2nd cr.) (1737-1819), pasted over an earlier, less well-executed plate of the 5th earl, with the single-tailed lion. Bookplate on verso of title page: Armorial, three boars' heads, differenced with a mullet; The Honble. Henry Booth. [i.e.: Henry Booth (1687-1727)].. Binding: Calf; blind ruled; rebacked (modern) spine entirely replaced; fore-edge title: 'Davis'; red spine label: Davis's reports Ireland'.
Makers and roles
Sir John Davies (bap.1569 - 1626)