The life of Ælfred the Great, by Sir John Spelman Kt. From the original manuscript in the Bodlejan [sic] Library: with considerable additions, and several historical remarks, by the publisher Thomas Hearne, M.A.
Sir John Spelman (1594-1643)
Category
Books
Date
1709
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3229680
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],238,[10]p. : front. (port.) ; 8vo. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Old Lyme Park library shelfmark label: Case L. Shelf 1. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled panelled calf; sewn onto five raised bands; double blind fillets to spine compartments; gilt lettered red spine label. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book]. (Damaged upper spine.)
Makers and roles
Sir John Spelman (1594-1643)