Accession number
PML 17615.4
Published
London : Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1688.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Although the binding would imply former ownership, Belle Greene believed it was more probably that the items may have been placed in the binding by Lord Gosford.
Caption title.
Imprimatur at foot of text: Published by His Majesties special command.
Imprint from colophon.
Includes testimony of witnesses to the birth of James, Prince of Wales, son of King James II and Queen Mary, in answer to those who claimed the child was not their son.
Library's copy marked with x to identify Catholics.
Signatures: A-K².
Caption title.
Imprimatur at foot of text: Published by His Majesties special command.
Imprint from colophon.
Includes testimony of witnesses to the birth of James, Prince of Wales, son of King James II and Queen Mary, in answer to those who claimed the child was not their son.
Library's copy marked with x to identify Catholics.
Signatures: A-K².
Description
40 p. ; 28 cm (folio).
Provenance
Bound with the arms and initials of James II. On the inner board is an engraving by Busan after A.S. Belle entitled: Jacques III. Roy d'Angleterre, Né le 26. Juin 1688 (imprint: Paris: chez Odieuvre, ... rüe des Maturins chez Mr. Joubert). Bookplate: E Libris comities de Gosford; sold to Bain 1884; Earl of Orford sale, Sotheby's 1902 to Quaritch; C.O. Bement; Rosenbach to Pierpont Morgan.
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