Book
Category
Books
Date
1625
Materials
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3225876.2
Summary
Bound volume containing 'Bibliotheca classica. Siue Catalogus officinalis, in quo philosophici artiumque adeo humaniorum, poetici etiam et musici libri omnes' (Frankfurt am Main, 1625) and 'Bibliotheca exotica, siue Catalogus officinalis librorum peregrinis linguis vsualibus scriptorum ...' (Frankfurt am Main, 1625).
Bibliographic description
Running number: 7790. Worm damage on inner margin throughout vol. 2. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf of first volume in set: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Earlier manuscript ownership[?] inscription on front pastedown, scribbled over in ink and illegible. Ink marks in margins against certain books. Binding: seventeenth-century full parchment over boards; sewn on three sewing supports; fore-edges of cover folded-over; two pairs of tawed leather ties (stubs only of two); manuscript title (faded) on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges.