The plot in a dream: : or, The discoverer in masquerade. In a succinct discourse and narrative of the late and present designs of the papists against the King and government. Illustrated with copper plates. / By Philopatris.
Philopatris
Category
Books
Date
1681
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100779
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 285, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates ; 12mo. Mounted on 4to. leaves. Extra-illustrated. Extra-illustrations include 36 playing cards (some partially hand-coloured) after the set engraved by Francis Barlow on the Popish Plot (c. 1679). Pencil annotation on playing card depicting the Spanish Armada. Pencil notes on front free endpaper verso in different hands: "Text AEK"; "58 Plates including 10 Portraits + 36 Playing Cards" (partially erased); and "by Charles Blount (1654-1693)"; other pencil notes on front free endpaper verso erased, illegible. Several pencil codes on rear free endpaper crossed through and erased (illegible). Two pencil codes on rear free endpaper (both crossed through): "O/H/-" and "O/O/". Pencil numbers at foot of rear free endpaper: "250", "253", and "257". Provenance: Nineteenth-century crest bookplate (Franks 1952): 'Henry B.H. Beaufoy, F.R.S.' [i.e. Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (1786-1851); part of his library was sold by Christie's of London in June 1909 and a further portion by Puttick and Simpson, London in May 1912]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf; double gilt fillet (thick and thin) to form an outer border on boards; five raised bands; rebacked in brown morocco (nineteenth-century), spine completely replaced and corners replaced; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The plot in a dream.' and 'London 1681.'; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gauffered gilt textblock edges; grey-green endpapers.
Makers and roles
Philopatris, author attributed to Charles Blount (1654-1693), author