The works of the learned and pious author of The whole duty of man.
Richard Allestree (1619 - 1681)
Category
Books
Date
1695
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3052205
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18],456;[12],242,[6],243-324,[6]p. . fol... Without frontispiece plate. Imperfect: wanting all between p. [293] (1st sequence) and p. [103] (2nd sequence) [i.e. all of "The gentlemen's calling", of which only the stubs remain]. Provenance: Bookplate: Erthig (anonymous armorial). Ms. inscription on front fly-leaf: "Dorothy Hutton her book 1734" [i.e. Dorothy Yorke, ne Hutton (d. 1787), wife of Simon Yorke (1696-1767)]. Ms. inscription on second front fly-leaf in hand of Dorothy Yorke. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
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