Leicester's common-wealth. . Conceived, spoken and published with most earnest protestation of dutifull goodwill and affection towards this realme. By Robert Parsons Jesuite. Whereunto is added Leicesters-ghost.
William Marshall (fl.1617-1650)
Category
Books
Date
1641
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3126921
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],128,137-183,[1];[2],34p., [1] plate . port.. . 8vo.. Former shelfmarks: Tt.3.40. - Imperfect; wanting all before the epistle directory. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754; also found in Wimpole books acquired by his successors]. - Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper: 'Leicester's Commonwealth / by Parsons Tho / Jesuits. Sir Asken Oxon / J. Vol. Col. 309'. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf, rebacked, gold-lettered spine, former (Yorke) shelfmark on rear pastedown exposed after rebacking.
Makers and roles
William Marshall (fl.1617-1650) Thomas Morgan (1543-1606) Robert Parsons (1546-1610) Thomas Rogers (1573-1609)