Gentium et familiarum Romanorum stemmata.
Freiherr Richard Strein von Schwartzenau (1538-1600)
Category
Books
Date
1559
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3176974
Summary
Bibliographic description
iiii,[56] leaves. fol. Title page dusty and stained. Final leaf has old tear (no loss of text), repaired and mounted. Price in pencil on pastedown: 1/6. Provenance: British Museum Library: stamps on title page verso: (1) 'MVSEVM / BRITAN / NICVM' (blue ink, in octagonal frame); (2) British Museum / Sale of duplicate / 1787 (black ink, in octagonal frame). Ink note on title page: 'Dupl.' Provenance: Gardner Wilkinson Library. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Binding:: Seventeenth or eighteenth-century gilt-panelled red goatskin (douible fillet borders, triple-fillet frame with corner-pieces). Board edges gilt. Edges of text-block gilt.Spine gilt, with device in panels: crown and linked Cs; title label 'Fam / Il / Ro'.
Makers and roles
Freiherr Richard Strein von Schwartzenau (1538-1600)