Miscellaneous Documents. 1653-1654
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector (1599-1658)
Category
Books
Date
1654
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3096560
Summary
Bibliographic description
63 pt. in 1 v. : coats of arms ; fol. Running number: 1433. Added contents note in secretary hand at foot of table. Provenance: Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front endleaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys]. Seventeenth-century inscription visible beneath front pastedown. Price inscribed in pencil on front endleaf: "3-6" crossed out in pen. Name inscribed at head of table in seventeenth-century hand: "Willigson(?)". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf over boards, double blind fillet border with two double blind vertical rules parallel to spine; single gilt rule along board edges; five raised bands, gilt title on goatskin label; solid red edges.
Makers and roles
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector (1599-1658), author Hills, Henry, -1689?, printer, printer Council of State England and Wales, authorisor