Characters and Elegies / by Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Poetry.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Bindley, James, 1739-1818 (bookplate) (inscriptions) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Jolley, Thomas (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Wharncliffe, Stuart Granville, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1827-1899 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Horde, John (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 68 pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

n,nd inas r.s. reCo (3) 1646 (R)

Place of Publication:

[London] : [publisher not identified], Printed in the Yeere MDCXLVI [1646]

Notes:

Place of publication from Wing.

Partly in verse.

The roman numeral date is made with turned C's.

First edition.

Characters of Charles I. and his followers, with poems on the royalist noblemen and gentlemen killed during the war.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of "James Bindley Esq. M.A.F.S.A. Ginchley Middlesea" on front pastedown. James Bindley (1737-1818) was an English official and antiquary, known as a collector of rare books, engravings, and medals.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of "Tho[ma]s Jolley Esq. F.S.A.", 19th century book collector. His "very extensive, singularly curious, and valuable library" was sold in 7 successive sales from 1843 to 1853.

Culture Class Collection copy has two booksellers' descriptions on verso of front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827-1899) on verso of front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. bibliographic notes by James Bindley ( 1739-1818), book collector and former owner of this copy, on front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "John Horde of the 6 Clerkes Office 1682" on title page.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) W3634

OCLC:

892097