The cruell uncle, or, The hardhearted executor : being a warning for all men, especially for executors and overseers of the poor, the widdow, and the fatherlesse.

Accession number: 
PML 6042
Published: 
London : Printed by E. Crouch for F. Coles, T. Vere, and I. Wright, 1670.
Description: 
[3], 1, [8] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 15.5 cm (8vo)
Credit: 
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes: 

Signatures: A⁸ B⁴: 12 leaves, leaf A1 (presumably) blank.
Satire on Richard III & his nephews (see Hazlitt).
PML copy missing 1 leaf: A1 (blank).

Binding: 
Green morocco, by Riviere.
Provenance: 
Frances Wolfreston (no inscription visible under UV), Wolfrestan sale, Sotheby's, 24 May 1856; E. G. Asay, bibliographic note stating from Wolfreston collection (tipped-in, rear endleaf); Theodore Irwin, purchased from Asay, Dec. 1881, price code: $yo-; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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