Pleas for the crown: . or, a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to that subject. By Sir Matthew Hale Knight, late Chief Justice of the Kings Bench.
Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676)
Category
Books
Date
1678
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3142908
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],272,[8]p., plate . ill.., port.. . 8vo.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: V.8.2 [brown ink]; T/8 [pencil]; T.2.26 [dark blue ink]. Lacks plate, if one was ever issued. Interleaved with blank paper and copiously annotated on this and on the text, probably in the hand of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke.. Provenance: In ink on verso of the title page 'P. Yorke, 1730' (= Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754). Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, gold and blind-tooled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676) Frederick-Hendrik van den Hove (The Hague c.1628 - London 1698).