Accession number:
PML 55181
Published:
Oxford : Printed at the Theater, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard, London , MDCLXXXI [1681].
Credit:
Purchased in 1965.
Description:
[404] pages ; 44 cm (fol)
Notes:
Woodcut title page vignette (Royal arms); woodcut initials; woodcut ornaments.
Signatures: A² *a-*d² ²A-3A⁴ 3B-3C².
Ruled in red.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Binding:
Bound in red morocco with onlays of black and citron in six irregularly shaped compartments grouped around a central compartment on both covers, the whole gold-tooled with pointillé flowers, floral volutes, stars, and curved fillets.
Provenance:
John Fitzwilliam (d. 1699), Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford, at his death, the book was given to: Lady Rachel Russell (about 1636-1723), scratched out inscription: "R. Russell presented to me by the bishop of bath & wells 1699. Doctor Can [i.e. Thomas Ken?]. out of doctor fitz williams library whose exector he was" (front endleaf 1 verso); Mary Mounsey, August 1821 (front endleaf 2 recto); Mortimer L. Schiff, booklabel (front pastedown); John Roland Abbey, armorial booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Maggs Bros., July 1965.
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