The history and fate of sacrilege, discover'd by examples of scripture, of heathens, and Christians; from the beginning of the world continually to this day. By Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. Wrote in the year 1632. A treatise omitted in the late edition of his posthumous works, and now published for the terror of evil doers. To which is added, The beginners of a monastick life, in Asia, Africa, and Europe; by Sir Roger Twisden, Kt. and Bar.
Sir Henry Spelman (1564-1641)
Category
Books
Date
1698
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3212178
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 292; 40 p. ; 8vo. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Manuscript inscription in pencil on front fly-leaf: "RWKC re-bound 1936" [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Early armorial bookplate (Franks 8788 or *267) on verso of title page: William Dobyns of Lincolns-Inn Esqr. [i.e. William Dobyns (d. 1709), father-in-law of Ashe Windham (1673-1749) of Felbrigg]. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto four cords with four raised bands; double blind fillet border and panel of double blind fillets with blind roll pattern and blind cornerpiece stamps; single gilt fillet along board edges. Rebacked (1936) in sheep. Gilt title, author and date stamped on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Sir Henry Spelman (1564-1641) Sir Roger Twysden, 2nd Baronet MP (1597 - 1672)