The institution, laws & ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter. . Collected and digested into one body by Elias Ashmole of the Middle-Temple Esq; Windesor Herald at Arms. A work furnished with variety of matter, relating to honor and noblesse.
Elias Ashmole (1617-1692)
Category
Books
Date
1672
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3149991
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],130,135-136,149-719,[105]p., [34] leaves of plates (15 folded) . coats of arms, ill.., port.. . fol. Imperfect: With only [4] preliminary pages. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: I.1.10 [brown ink]; 134 [pencil on pastedown]; H.1 [pencil]; I.6.12 [dark blue ink]. With "The London Gazette numb. 6382" (See NT132796) loose in front of volume. manuscripton pastedown: "a Py" and "Cosh a & j 1.15.0". manuscripton flyleaf: "C.1.10.0. I lib. Hen. Johnson Ing d 17r. 1736.". Provenance: Ms on title page: "Tho. Susner". Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled, gold-lettered red label on spine, gold-tooled spine, blind-tooled panel detail on boards, blind-tooled board edges, red and brown sprinkled edges. Loose front board.
Makers and roles
Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 - London 1677) William Sherwin (Wellington 1645 - 1711) Order of the Garter