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| Provenance A: Binding | Bound in dark brown blind-tooled panelled calf with marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Spine contains seven compartments. |
| Provenance B: Ownership Marks | Copy contains numerous ownership inscriptions including “Thomas Coatman 1706” with price 10s? at foot of title page. Additional obliterated inscription at top of title page reads “T[?] Bundell?”. Verso of first endpaper has stamp of Thomas Delafield. Recto of second endpaper has pencil inscription of “Maria Halliday Glenthorne?” and “David Perry Dr. DD Hon[?] Uncle”. Spencer Art Reference Library stamp and pencil inscription “12-00 Marian Lee Gault gift” on dedication page. Additional inscription of “Tho[mas] Atkins? at the ?? lyon? in Holborne” with price at foot on one of the supplementary MS pages at end of text. |
| Provenance C: Annotations | Copy contains occasional MS. corrections in pencil and MS. ink supplementary notes in different hands throughout, see for example, sigs. E1r, E2v, F6v, M2r, N2r, O4v, S1r, T1v, V2r, Z3v, 2D5v, 2H4r and 2H6r. Ink strikethroughs on sigs. D1r, L5r and L5v. Supplementary note relating to Henry the Seventh found on sig. E1r. Select arms, printed initials and crowns coloured throughout. Copy contains extensive supplementary pages at the end of the text, including 1. ordinaries, i.e. lists of uncoloured family arms in MS. 2. ordinaries i.e. lists of coloured family arms in MS. with an inscription that reads “Arms that have relation to the Parish of Great Hastly in the County of Oxon. Collected by Thomas Delafield”. Front endpaper contains a passage with title reading “The title of Yorke & Lancaster to the crown of [England?]”. Alphabetized MS. index beginning on verso of final printed table. MS. excerpt of poem by Michael Drayton on final supplementary endpapers, titled “The insines of the seavarall County of Eng[land] and Wales att the Battail of AginCourt in France written by Michael Drayton the poet”. For a link to the poem, see Project Gutenberg. |
Courtesy of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Art Reference Library
