Peter Langtoft's chronicle, . (as illustrated and improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the death of Cadwalader to the end of K. Edward the first's reign. Transcrib'd, and now first publish'd, from a MS. ... By Thomas Hearne, ... In two volumes.
Peter of Langtoft (d.1307)
Category
Books
Date
1725
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3074109
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. (CCXXXII,230,[2];[2]235-722,[2]p.) . ill.. . 8vo.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: Y42 [pencil, mid-18C on vol. 2 flyleaf]; G/6 [pencil]; I.3.5-6 [black ink]. Provenance: manuscript on vol. 1 title page verso: P: Yorke, 1725. Domum Samuelis Mead Ar'. List of subscribers includes: Samuel Mead Esq. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) in vol. 1: Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, remains of gilt spine tooling, double gilt fillet on covers, gilt rolls on board edges and inners, red and brown sprinkled edges, green silk bookmarks. Cover leather is falling away in patches.
Makers and roles
Peter of Langtoft (d.1307)