The works of the pious and profoundly-learned Joseph Mede, B.D. : sometime Fellow of Christ's Colledge in Cambridge. Corrected and enlarged according to the author's own manuscripts.
Joseph Mede (1586-1638)
Category
Books
Date
1677
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3241589
Summary
Bibliographic description
The fourth edition. [44], XLV, [7], 923, [29] p., [1] leaf of plates (folding) : ill. ; fol. Manuscript on free endpaper recto: XOO. Eighteenth century manuscript on first front flyleaf: PD./. Candle burns on pp. 257, 815. Provenance: (1) Manuscript inscription on half-title in a seventeenth-century hand: B: Swallow Col Sti. Petr. Cantab.; (2) Manuscript inscription on title page: H. W. [possibly Humfrey Wanley]; (3) Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770), younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled, polished sheep over boards on six raised cords; double blind fillet on spine; red-brown spine label; double blind fillet on covers; remains of gilt roll on board edges; remains of marbled edges. Old water stain on pages from p. 580 to end of volume.
Makers and roles
Joseph Mede (1586-1638), author John Worthington (1618 - 1671), editor