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| Call Number: | G.b.15 |
| Provenance A: Binding | Bound in modern goat skin over beige book cloth with blind-tooled ornaments on front board. Spine contains six compartments with gilt ornaments on bands and title “Brooke’s Catalogve and Svccession” in gilt in compartment two and “MS Annotations & Additions” in gilt in compartment three. Recto of final endpaper contains ink stamp “Rebound by Robert Lunow, November 1956” Folger communications notes the copy was previously bound in “rough calf”. |
| Provenance B: Ownership Marks | Copy contains ink stamp reading “Sir T. Phillipps. Middle-hill 1843” on recto of front endpaper. Copy purchased by Folger from the Sotheby auction of Sir Thomas Phillipps’s collection on April 24th, 1911. Title page has “The Authours guift”. This is one of several surviving gift copies. |
| Provenance C: Annotation | Copy contains loose MS. facsimile in an early hand describing Brooke’s imprisonment and extensive manuscript notes, including some on several interleaves throughout. Annotations include genealogical diagrams, supplements and crossrefrences. See for example reference to Stowe on pp. B2v, and verso of first interleaf and Sandford on pp. B2v, verso of first interleaf, recto of interleaf after B4, verso of fourth interleaf and recto of interleaf numbered 581. Additional MS. notes pasted over existing marginal notes, possibly in the same hand. |
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