The voyage of Italy: or, A compleat journey through Italy : In two parts. With the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towns, churches, monasteries, tombs, libraries, palaces, villa's, gardens, pictures, statues, and antiquities. As also, of the interest, government, riches, force, &c. of all the princes. With instructions concerning travel /
Richard Lassels (1603?-1668)
Category
Books
Date
1686
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3208374
Summary
Bibliographic description
[40], 160; 272, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 8vo. Titlepage late seventeenth or eighteenth-century ink manuscript: l 15 N. 30. Loose insert (p.33): small leaf of notepaper added, in eighteenth-century hand: "A story like this is told of a man who in a very dark night rode over a plank ... ". Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]; pasted over eighteenth-century early armorial bookplate of Richard Banner [Banner (b. 1696) of Little Aston Hall, sold library to Thomas Anson in about 1745]. Binding: late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century calf; blind tooled panel; gilt tooled spine and board edges; four raised bands.
Makers and roles
Richard Lassels (1603?-1668), author Simon Wilson (fl.1670)