1622

Melbourne, Australia

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Call Number:  RARESF 929.7201 B79C
Provenance A: Binding  Bound in half calf over marbled boards with marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Spine has six compartments. Compartment two has title in gilt “Heraldry and Genealogy by R. Brooke” on red label. Date of “1622” in gilt at foot of spine and call number in MS on white label in compartment six. Compartments three to five contain blind-tooled ornaments separated by gilt rules.
Provenance B: Ownership Marks Copy contains the armorial bookplate of William Constable Maxwell (1804-1876) on the inner front pastedown. Title page has “The Authours guift”. This is one of several surviving gift copies.
Provenance C: Annotations Copy contains a single marginal correction on p. 73.

Images Courtesy of Rare Book Collection, State Library Victoria.