Book
Sir Robert Filmer (d.1653)
Category
Books
Date
1680 - 1684
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3050695
Summary
Single bound volume of 2 works by Sir Robert Filmer.
Bibliographic description
8vo.. Imperfect: wanting initial portrait leaf. With a final blank leaf. Provenance: Armorial bookplate on title page verso: The Right Honble. John Lord Hervey created Baron of Ickworth in Com. Suff. March the 23d. 1702 [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)]. Marginalia and underscorings in red pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751).. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double blind fillet border; gilt roll on board edges. Rebacked in blind-tooled calf, with gilt title and date stamped on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Sir Robert Filmer (d.1653)