An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, . inciting him to affect arms more than peace. Made at His Highness command by Sr. Robert Cotton ... With a short view of the life and reign of Henry the Third ... by the same author. The second edition, very much corrected, and a preface added by Sr. John Cotton ... To which is annexed the French charity, or an essay written in French by an English gentleman, upon occasion of Prince Harcourt's coming into England: and translated into English, by F.S. J.E.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet of Connington MP (1571-1631)
Category
Books
Date
1675
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3057296
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],142,[2]p., plate . ill.., port.. . 8vo.. With the cancellandum title page dated 1665 (torn through) in addition to cancel title page dated 1675. Lacks initial blank leaf and portrait frontispiece.. Provenance: Signature on flyleaf: John Hall [i.e. John Hall, of Magdalene College Cambridge in 1670s-1680s], also 'df' above signature. Bookplate: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: I/1. Binding: Calf(seventeenth-century), sewn on 4 cords. Double border rules and quatrefoil corner-pieces.
Makers and roles
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet of Connington MP (1571-1631) John Evelyn (1620-1706) Sir John Cotton (1621-1704)