A memorial offered to Her Royal Highness the princess Sophia, electress and duchess dowager of Hanover. . Containing a delineation of the constitution and policy of England: with anecdotes concerning remarkable persons of that time. Now first published, ... By Gilbert Burnet, ... To which are added, Letters from Burnet and Leibniz, and fac similes of the hand writing of those two distinguished men.
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) Bishop of Salisbury.
Category
Books
Date
1815
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3053492
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii,[1]125,[3]p., plate . ill.., facsim.. . 8vo.. Not identified in 1768 catalogue.. Provenance: Bookplate: George Harry Grey (1765-1845) after 1819; anonymous armorial. Not in Franks or Viner. Bookseller's label on front endpaper: 'J. Ford. Bookseller, stationer &c. 39 Market Street, Manchester'.. Binding: Half-bound marbled paper boards; blue calf spine, with blind and gilt-tooling. Marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) Bishop of Salisbury. Electress Sophia, Princess Palatine, consort of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover (1630-1714) Johann Georg Heinrich Feder Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz (1646-1716)