Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality.
John Graunt (1620-1674)
Category
Books
Date
1676
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3094866
Summary
Bibliographic description
[40],150p., [2] folded leaves of plates . tables . 8vo. With a final blank leaf.. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on title page: "John & Isabella" [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751) and his first wife Isabella (1670-1693)]. Armorial bookplate: The Right Honble. John Lord Hervey created Baron of Ickworth in Com. Suff. March the 23d. 1702 [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)]. Marginalia and underscorings in pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751).. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled sheepskin binding; double blind fillet border, with blind roll pattern along spine edge; gilt roll on board edges. Rebacked in blind-tooled calf, with gilt title, author and date stamped on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
John Graunt (1620-1674) Sir William Petty (1623-1687)