Illustrium maioris Britanniae scriptorum : hoc est, Angliae, Cambriae, ac Scotiae summariu[m] ... / autore Ioanne Balaeo ...
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PML 78160
Published:
Excusumque fuit Gippeswici [Ipswich] in Anglia : Per Ioannem Ouerton ..., 1548.
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1984.
Description:
[12], 255, [1] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm
Notes:
Imprint from colophon, folio 248 recto; actually printed at Wesel by Derick van der Straten (Theodoricus Plateanus), whose imprint appears on the t.p. of a variant issue, cf. STC 1296.
Binding:
16th-century French brown calf, gold-tooled, with black-painted interlace, dated 1552, for Thomas Wotton by Wotton's Binder III (Nixon's Wotton's Binder C; who bound another copy with Wotton's arms, formerly in the Breslauer collection, see Bibliotheca bibliographica Breslaueriana, Christie's, New York, 21 March 2005, lot 7).
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Ruled in red.
Provenance:
Thomas Wotton (1521-1587), binding; James Bindley (1739-1818), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and manuscript note (front endleaf 2 recto), his sale: Evans, part I, 7 Dec. 1818, lot 1461 for £5.5.0 to Clarke; unidentified English sale catalogue description, no. 98 for 48ℓ (front endleaf 1 recto); William Beckford (1760-1844), inherited by his daughter: Susan Euphemia Beckford Hamilton (1786-1859) and son-in-law Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767-1852), 10th Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale: Sotheby's, 30 June 1882, lot 533 for £21.0.0 to Ellis & White; William Waldorf Astor (1848-1919), part of the Astor deposit at the Bodleian Library (see Fine bindings 1500-1700 from Oxford libraries: catalogue of an exhibition (Oxford, 1968), no. 57 and pl. XVI), later removed and sold; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Marlborough Rare Books as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1984.
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