Record ID:
130089
Accession number:
MA 662
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description:
1 item (26 p.), bound ; 31.8 cm
Notes:
Pages are ruled in brown ink; catchwords throughout; with speech prefixes in italic hand in left margin.
Authorship was formerly attributed to Robert Parsons.
Dating from dealer description.
Leicester's Commonwealth is STC 19399.
Summary:
Libel on Lord Leicester, in the form of a dialogue between a gentleman, a lawyer, and a scholar. Contains "Epistle Dedycatory to Mr G M in Gratious Streete in London". Also contains "Certaine notes taken out of some other authour concerninge my Lor[d] of Leicestors Com[m]on wealth."
Binding:
Green leather gilt, lettered "My Lord of Leicester's Commonwealth / The original manuscript (1579)," by Riviere.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1910.
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