The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, William, 1575-1645.

Contributor:

Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 1590-1627.

Kip, William.

Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-

Jaggard, William, 1569-1623, printer.

White, John, -1651, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heraldry.

Leicestershire (England)--Early works to 1800.

Leicestershire (England).

Leicestershire (England)--Genealogy--Early works to 1800.

Heraldry--England--Early works to 1800.

England.

Genre:

Family histories.

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 218, 209-320 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, map, portrait ; 28 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed [by William Jaggard] for Iohn White ..., [1622]

Notes:

Printer's name from STC; "To the reader" dated 30 October 1622.

Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-2C⁴ chi1 2D-2T⁴ 2V².

2O1 is a cancel, with recto catchword "gaue". Variant: 2O1 is cancellandum, recto catchword "liberty". Cf. ESTC.

Title-page and frontispiece (portrait) engraved by Francis Delaram.

The engraved map has legend "Lecestriae comitatus. Siue Leicestershyre: pars olim Coritanorum.". It is signed "Christophorum Saxton descrip: William Kip sculp:".

Woodcuts: illustrations, initials, and head-pieces.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 634:2 on UMI microfilm.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is variant with 2O1 cancellandum, recto catchword "liberty".

Penn Libraries copy has frontispiece and title leaf mounted on blank leaves; last two leaves repaired at outer margin.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 4179

ESTC S107138

OCLC:

23620262