Accession number:
PML 18721
Published:
Francofurti : Apud Heredes Andrea Wecheli, Claudium Marnium, & Joan. Aubrium, 1594.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description:
2 volumes in 1 ([12], 1013 pages, 1014-1213 columns, [59] pages) ; 34 cm (fol)
Notes:
Signatures: )(⁶ A-Z⁶ Aa-Zz⁶ AA-ZZ⁶ AAa-OOo⁶ PPp-ZZz⁴ AAaa⁴ BBbb⁶ CCcc-DDdd⁴ EEee⁶.
Title vignette and printer's mark.
Binding:
Brown calf, gilt-tooled, with the onlaid crowned arms of Queen Elizabeth (partly restored) insigned within the Garter, and with her initials and motto: Dieu et mon droit, 1590s. 2 side ties, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings:
With added red ruling lines. Annotations: "Good Queen Bess's own book" (front pastedown). Note in Belle Greene's hand: Bridget Skipwith, daughter of Sir William Skipwith (sheriff of Lincolshire during reign of Henry VIII) was a maid of honor to Elizabeth.
Provenance:
Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), armorial binding; [possibly Bridget Skipwith, sister of William Skipwith (d. 1587) and maid of honor to Elizabeth]; Sir Francis Skipwith, Bart. (ca. 1705-1778), bookplate (front pastedown); Sir Peyton d'Estoteville Skipwith, Bart. (1857-1891), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Sir Grey H. d'Estoteville Skipwith, Bart. (1884-1950); his sale, Sotheby's London, 26 July 1907, lot 274 to Bernard Quaritch; J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Quaritch, Feb. 1909.
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