Posthumous works in prose and verse,
Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Category
Books
Date
1715 - 1716
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3160411
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill., port. ; 12mo. Former shelfmark: D.1.20. Imperfect: vol. 1 only. Shelved and uniform with vol. 2 of the 2nd edition (1715). Provenance: nineteenth-century bookplate printed in red with Legh ram’s head crest, lettered: W.J.L. [i.e. William John Legh, first Lord Newton (1828-1898)]. Printed shelfmark label beneath bookplate: Case "I" [in MS.] Shelf "6" [i.e. a Lyme Park book]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge style panelled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; missing title label from spine; nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamp [i.e. a Legh family book] on spine.
Makers and roles
Samuel Butler (1612-1680) Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704)