Bound volume of seven tracts by William Prynne dated 1645-1653.
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1645 - 1653
Materials
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3257887
Summary
Bibliographic description
Running number: 1365. Bound volume of seven tracts by William Prynne. Contents list containing 8 works written on first front endleaf in late seventeenth-century hand; item 7 'Minors no Senators' crossed out and not in volume. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front pastedown: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys], continued "all. [underlined]". Numbers inscribed on front pastedown: [1] nineteenth-century(?) pencil "26/2"; [2] eighteenth-century "38"; and pricecode(?) in pencil on first front endleaf: "5-8". Binding: late seventeenth-century dark brown calf over boards (worn) with double blind-lined border; five raised bands; endbands; sewn on five supports, laced-in; pastedown and endleaves; red and blue marbled leaf edges. In book shoe.
Makers and roles
William Prynne (1600-1669), author