Annales, or, A generall chronicle of England. Begun by Iohn Stow: continued and augmented with matters forraigne and domestique, ancient and moderne, vnto the end of this present yeere, 1631. By Edmund Howes, Gent.
John Stow (London c.1525 - London 1605)
Category
Books
Date
1631 - 1632
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3235081
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 537, 540-819, 819-891, 891-897, p. 890, 900-901, 991-1014, 1003-1050, [2], 1057-1062, [4], 1063-1087, [31] p. ; fol. Running number: 6928. Wanting final blank leaf. Provenance: seventeenth-century note on front fly-leaf: "conspiracie of pretended reformation pag: 762". One or two seventeenth-century manuscript marginal notes, e.g. p. 775. Binding: English seventeenth-century full calf over pasteboards; sewn on five tawed leather cords; double blind fillet border with additional quarter double blind fillet parallel to spine-edge; single gilt fillet along board edges; blind fillet decoration and gilt title label ' Stow's Chronicl' on spine; handband broken; red sprinkled textblock edges; vellum manuscript waste lines spine, English, part of legal document regarding land in Harpenden ("harpeden") and Wheathampstead ("whethamstedt") made in the "xxxvijth yeare of the raigne of King Henry the Eighte", i.e. 1545/46.
Makers and roles
John Stow (London c.1525 - London 1605) Sir George Buck (d.1623) Edmund Howes (1607-1631)