Anglia sacra, sive Collectio historiarum, . partim antiquitus, partim recenter scriptarum, de archiepiscopis & episcopis Angliæ, a prima fidei Christianæ susceptione ad annum MDXL. Nunc primùm in Lucem editarum. ...
Henry Wharton (1664 - 1695)
Category
Books
Date
1691
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3147280
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 pts. (lviii, [2], 805, [11]; [8], xxxiv, [2], 706, [2] p.) ; fol. Running number: 4088. Large paper copy? Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol. There is a transposition of a sheet in the 2d vol. as is there marked at the beginning" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ιθ'" [i.e. iota theta' = Greek number 19]; and price "72 - 2 Vol 1-10-0". Manuscript inscriptions on vol. 2 front fly-leaf: "NB. In this vol. the sheet [Iii] is by carelessness put after the sheet [Lll.] but nothing wanting", and price "72 - 2 Vol 1-10-0". Binding: late seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; double and single blind fillet border; panel of double and single blind fillets, with blind cornerpiece and sidepiece stamps, the panel with swirled decoration; single gilt fillet on board edges; blind-tooled spines, with gilt title and vol. no. stamped directly onto spines. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Henry Wharton (1664 - 1695)