Monasticon anglicanum . a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales also of all such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries, as were in any manner connected with religious houses in England ; originally published in Latin by Sir William Dugdale.
Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686)
Category
Books
Date
1817 - 1830
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3060557
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v in 8, plates (part double) . ill.. . fol... Not indigenous. Loosely inserted in v.1: clippings from dealer's catalogues, unrelated to provenance. Provenance: Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on pastedown in Norris's hand: Dropmore House 1939 9 vols. £11. [Dropmore House, Buckinghamshire].. Binding: Nineteenth-century armorial full blue straight-grained morocco over thick boards; blind tools within six gilt fillets to form a border; gilt armorial stamps as centrepieces, lettered Cancellarii Academiae Oxoniensis. Sigill. W. W. Baronis Grenville [i.e. William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759-1834), of Dropmore House, Chancellor of Oxford University and Prime Minister]; gilt fillets on inner borders; gilt spines with title "Dugdale's Monasticon anglicum"; sewn on six double raised bands.
Makers and roles
Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686) Bulkeley Bandinel (1781 - 1861) John Caley (1763 - 1834) Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654) Sir Henry Ellis (1777-1869) John Stevens (d.1726) Richard Cowling Taylor (1789-1851)