An introduction to a breviary of the history of England : with the reign of King William the I. entitled the Conqueror. / Written by Sr. Walter Raleigh, Kt. and dedicated to the then Earl of Salisbury.
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618)
Category
Books
Date
1693
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3180622
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 77, [3] p. : port. ; 8vo. Seventeenth-century subject heading on pastedown: s/ His. Brit 563. Previous shelfmark on pastedown in a seventeenth-century hand: 13.F.20. Nineteenth-century pencil number “531” on pastedown. Eighteenth-century “726” in ink on front cover. Seventeenth-century manuscript note on flyleaf [Edward Browne?]: The MS. of this is in ye Cotton Library as appears by the Catalogue of it p. 132 col. 2. numb. 17. & also in that of ye Earl of Bristow, as I have suggested in a note in the preface [which refers to Athen. Oxon vol. 1. col. 373]. Provenance: No marks of provenance. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, gilt spine tooling, double blind fillet and small spiral cornerpieces on covers, blind roll on board edges, red and yellow sprinkled edges. Front cover partially loose.
Makers and roles
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618) Samuel Daniel (1562/3 - Beckington 1619)