Sylva sylvarum: . or, a naturall history. In ten centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St Alban.
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626)
Category
Books
Date
1639
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Scotney Castle, Kent
NT 3108739
Summary
Bibliographic description
Add. engr. t.-pl., [18], 218, [26]; [4], 43, [1] p.; . fol.. Provenance: Label in red: Scotney Castle Lamberhurst. - Extensive repair of torn paper of front free-endpaper suggestive of the removal of an inscription. - Ink inscriptions in the text. - Scotney Castle catalogue, 1855. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf, brown spine-label, gold-lettered. Loosely inserted as a bookmark: Printed ticket of 'Ashford Book Club / Wednesday / 179' dated in ink 'Nov 14. / 179'2'.
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626) William Rawley (1588-1667)