The history or narrative of the great level of the fenns, called Bedford level, . with a large map of the said level, as drained, surveyed, & described by Sir Jonas Moore Knight, His late Majesties Surveyor-General of his ordnance.
Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679)
Category
Books
Date
1685
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3101675
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 81, [1]p., [1] leaf of folded plates ; map ; 8vo. Running number: 1261. Imperfect: wants map. Text crossed out pp. 48-9. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscriptions on front pastedown: [1] former shelfmark in eighteenth-century hand "19.I.2"; [2] "no map" in pencil in twentieth-century hand. Manuscript inscription on front endleaf in late seventeenth century hand: "Nicholson Enge. Hist. Library | p. 26.". Red seal at head of title page. Binding: late seventeenth-century full sprinkled brown calf over boards with double blind fillet to form a border and blind fleurons in corners. Single gilt dotted line along board edges. Four raised bands; gilt tooling on darkened spine and gilt title "BEDFORD | LEVEL" on red leather label. Endbands lost. Four supports laced in; pastedown and endleaves at both ends. Red sprinkled edges. Left board loose.
Makers and roles
Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679)