The art of contentment
Richard Allestree (1619 - 1681)
Category
Books
Date
1677
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3094651
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],214,[2]p.,plate . 8vo. With manuscript '20' in red ink on flyleaf and bookseller's marks at end of book. With manuscript marginal lines and marks throughout. Page 16 is misnumbered 26; 23 as 13; 48 as 84; 60 as 88;91 as 51; 114 as 214.. Provenance: manuscript on flyleaf: Frances Maria Chambers August 11th 1790. Late nineteenth-early twentieth century bookplate, lettered: Ex libris V.M. Turnbull. Bookseller's ticket: Pickering, bookseller 190 Piccadilly.. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red leather binding sewn onto four raised bands; triple gilt rolled border; gilt rolled on board edges and turn-ins; floral tooled on spine; gilt lettered direct onto spine: 'Con-tent'; marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Allestree (1619 - 1681) Michael Burgher (1653-1727) John Fell (1625-1686) Bishop of Oxford Humphrey Henchman (1592-1675) Bishop of London Dorothy Coventry, Lady Pakington (1679) Richard Sterne (1596?-1683) Archbishop of York