Original letters of his excellency Sir Richard Fanshaw, during his embassies in Spain and Portugal: . which, together with divers letters and answers from the chief Ministers of State of England, Spain and Portugal, contain the whole negotiations of the treaty of peace between those three crowns.
Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666).
Category
Books
Date
1702
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3094951
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],510,[2]p., [1] folded leaf of plates . port.. . 8vo. Provenance: 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: Eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled calf binding; gilt roll on board edges. Rebacked in blind-tooled calf, with gilt title label and date stamp 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
Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666). William Faithorne, The Elder (London c.1616 - London 1691)