The plain dealer: . being select essays on several curious subjects, realting to friendship, love, and gallantry, ... and other branches of polite literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And now collected into two volumes. The second edition. ...
Aaron Hill (1685-1750)
Category
Books
Date
1730
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3095125.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1 of 2 . ill.. . 8vo. Provenance: Large armorial bookplate in both vols: John Hervey of Ickworth in Com. Suff. Esqr. 1698 [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 sprinkled calf bindings; double gilt fillet border, with quarter blind roll pattern; gilt roll on board edges. Both vols. rebacked in gold-tooled calf, with title, vol. no. and date stamped in gilt on spines.
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
Aaron Hill (1685-1750) William Bond (d.1735)