Memoirs of the Life and Character Of the Late Earl of Orrery, And of the Family of the Boyles. . Containing Several Curious Facts, and Pieces of History, from the Reign of Queen Elisabeth, to the present Times: Extracted from Original Papers and Manuscripts never yet Printed. With A Short Account of the Controversy between the late Earl of Orrery and the Reverend Doctor Bentley; and some Select Letters of Phalaris, the famous Sicilian Tyrant: Translated from the Greek. By Eustace Budgell Esq:.
Eustace Budgell (1686-1737)
Category
Books
Date
1732
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3143441
Summary
Bibliographic description
xl, 258, [2]p., plate . port. . 4to.. With ms on pastedown: "Case 28 Shelf 2". Provenance: Armorial bookplate on pastedown: "Ut Prosim. Foley". - With two identical inkstamps on pastedown: "Col. The Right Honourable George A. Gibbs, M.P.". - Small pictorial bookplate with view of Tyntesfield with coat of arms and armour below; "En Dios Mi Amparo Esperanza" "Tenax Propositi" [i.e. family motto] "George Abraham Gibbs, of Tyntesfield" [i.e. George Abraham 1st Baron Wraxall (1873-1931)] on flyleaf.. Binding: Eighteenth-century brown leather; gold-tooling on spine; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Eustace Budgell (1686-1737)