Fragmenta regalia. Memoirs of Elizabeth, her court and favourites. By Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of State to King James the First. A new edition, with notes, and a memoir of the author. The text collated with the manuscript copies in the British Museum.
Sir Robert Naunton (1563-1631)
Category
Books
Date
1824
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3071706
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxvi, [2], 156 p., [9] leaves of plates : ports. ; 8vo. Provenance: armorial bookplate (Franks 28348): lettered 'The Earl of Ilchester' and signed 'Griffiths & Weigalls. 3 St. James Stt.' (arms. Fox quartering Strangways) [i.e. Henry Stephen Fox-Strangways 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787-1858)]. Manuscript inscription in pencil on front fly-leaf: "R.W. Ketton-Cremer Felbrigg 1962" [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Binding: nineteenth-century full polished calf; gilt fillet and blind roll pattern border, with gilt cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges and on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine; brown morocco title label on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binder's ticket on verso of front free endpaper: 'Bound by Charles Murton, 50, Long Acre'.
Makers and roles
Sir Robert Naunton (1563-1631) Robert Cooper (fl.1795-1828), engraver (printmaker)