Illustrations of British history, biography, and manners, in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, & James I, exhibited in a series of original papers, selected from the mss. of the noble families of Howard, Talbot, and Cecil : containing ... a great part of the correspondence of Elizabeth and her ministers, with George, Sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, during the fifteen years in which Mary, Queen of Scots, remained in his custody : with numerous notes and observations / by Edmund Lodge ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lodge, Edmund, 1756-1839.

Contributor:

Chidley, John, active 1830-1840.

Bensley, Benjamin.

Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870.

College of Arms (Great Britain). Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603--Sources.

Great Britain.

History.

Great Britain--History--James I, 1603-1625--Sources.

Great Britain--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (RBC copy)

Drummond, Charles (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : portrait ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition, with additions, revised and corrected ...

Manufacture:

[London] : B. Bensley, printer.

Other Title:

Illustrations of British history, biography, and manners

Illustrations of British history ...

Place of Publication:

London : John Chidley ..., MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]

Notes:

Frontispiece leaf of plates in vol. 1 is a portrait of Edmund Lodge "engraved by Smith, from a drawing by Maclise."

"The manuscripts, distinguished by the title 'Talbot papers,' were extracted from fifteen volumes which are preserved in the library of the College of Arms."--Cf. Introduction, p. xix.

"Papers still remaining unpublished in the Talbot Collection at the Herald's College, which have not been considered sufficiently important to insert in this work", 167 p. at end of vol. 3.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has the armorial bookplate of Charles Drummond on the front paste-down endpaper of each vol.

Other Format:

Online version: Lodge, Edmund, 1756-1839. Illustrations of British history, biography, and manners, in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, & James I.

OCLC:

3808908