The historie of Great Britaine vnder the conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, habits, warres, coines, and seales: with the successions, liues, acts, and issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Cæsar, vnto the raigne of King Iames, of famous memorie. The third edition. Reuised, enlarged, and newly corrected, with sundry descents of the Saxons kings, their marriages and armes. By Iohn Speed.
John Speed (1552? -1629)
Category
Books
Date
1632
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3153734
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22], 1042 p., 1043-1086 leaves, 1087-1237, [89] p., plate : ill., port. ; fol. Imperfect: lacks frontispiece portrait and leaf [par.] 1, [par.] 5-6, A1. Leaf A3 missing lower corner; lower part of leaf A5 missing. Last index leaf verso pencil manuscript: “1186 Buloin[?]” Ink manuscript on turn-in of cover on upper board; manuscript on paper infill of lower board. Provenance: Margate subscription library label partly removed. Turn-in inscribed in ink: Charlotte Mordaunt. Pencil manuscript on endpaper: “M Lackington for 1814 Part 1st / i/-/-[?]”. Further ink manuscript marks alongside, including initials: W:V. Binding: seventeenth-century vellum; three external leather rough-cut bands; ink manuscript spine-title: Speeds Chronicles. Further ink manuscript across upper spine. Round manuscript shelfmark label: G1.
Makers and roles
John Speed (1552? -1629) Salomon Savery (1594-1665)