A collection of all the statutes, from the beginning of Magna Charta, vnto this present yere of our Lorde God 2572 [sic].
England and Wales
Category
Books
Date
1572
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3233862
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 664 leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6875. Imperfect: wanting title page and final leaf. Many leaves repaired with tissue paper. Leaves AAa2-7 (p. 370-375) and AAAa2-7 (p. 554-559) transposed and misbound. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. With some manuscript marginal annotations in a late sixteenth-century hand, e.g. on leaves D4, X2-X7, Cc4-Cc7, plus other marginal markings and scribbles. Name written on Pp2r: "John Henderson". Receipt written on QQq6v: "... recepted by me Christopher pett". Binding: twentieth-century quarter-bound black calf with brown buckram cloth over boards; red goatskin spine label with gilt title 'Elenchus Parliamentorum'; untrimmed edges. Binder's typescipt note attached to rear pastedown, signed and dated Nicholas Pickwoad 5 July 1983.
Makers and roles
England and Wales William Rastell (1508-1565), editor Richard Tottel (d.1594), printer England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)