Accession number
PML 7703
Creator
Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
Published
Oxford : At the Theater, 1667 [i.e. 1677].
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Attributed also to Lady Dorothy Pakington, Richard Stearne, John Fell, and others. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
This appears to be the genuine fifth impression, printed at Oxford. Cf. Madan, Oxford books. v. 3, p. 344.
Copy 2.
This appears to be the genuine fifth impression, printed at Oxford. Cf. Madan, Oxford books. v. 3, p. 344.
Copy 2.
Description
[12], 214, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm
Provenance
Alice Paine, 1694, signature; Elizabeth Bradburne, 1750, signature and bookplate; Cecil Dunn Gardner, inscriptions (rear pastedown), purchased from Boone, 1858; his sale, Sotheby's London, 21 June 1880, purchased by Irwin; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
English gilt-tooled red morocco (Restoration/Mearne style).
Classification
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