The generall history of vvomen,. containing the lives of the most holy and prophane, the most famous and infamous in all ages, exactly described not only from poeticall fictions, but from the most ancient, modern, and admired historians, to our times.
Thomas Heywood (d.1641)
Category
Books
Date
1657
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3188055
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 193, 192-651, [3] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 4250. Provenance: former shelfmark[?]: "3H5". Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled sheepskin; double blind fillet border, with quarter double blind fillet; blind roll pattern on board edges; remnants of gilt title label on spine: 'Haywood's Hist: of women'. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Heywood (d.1641) Edward Phillips (1630-1696)