The historie of Great Britaine vnder the conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, habits, warres, coines, and seales: with the successions, liues, acts, and issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Cæsar, vnto the raigne of King Iames, of famous memorie. The third edition. Reuised, enlarged, and newly corrected, with sundry descents of the Saxons kings, their marriages and armes. By Iohn Speed.
John Speed (1552? -1629)
Category
Books
Date
1632
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3215673
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22],430,391-1058 p.,1059-1001 [i.e.:1101] leaves, 1107-1258,[86] p., plate : port. (metal cut), ill.(woodcuts). fol. Imperfect: wants frontispiece. Old Felbrigg shelfmarks: [in pencil at front] N8. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]; inscribed: Hanworth [?] WHW / 1850 [perhaps William Howe Windham (1802-1854)]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; sewn onto six raised bands; double blind fillet borders. Manuscript account leaves (a/c Edw: Bromley) used to support binding showing at both boards. (Spine damaged, partly split, part missing.)
Makers and roles
John Speed (1552? -1629) Salomon Savery (1594-1665)