Scrinia reserata : a memorial offer'd to the great deservings of John Williams, D.D. who some time held the places of Ld Keeper of the Great Seal of England, Ld Bishop of Lincoln, and Ld Archbishop of York : containing a series of the most remarkable occurrences and transactions of his life, in relation both to church and state / written by John Hacket ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hacket, John, 1592-1670.

Contributor:

Jones, Edward, -1706, printer.

Lowndes, Samuel, publisher.

White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Williams, John, 1582-1650.

Williams, John.

Bishops--Great Britain--Biography.

Bishops.

Great Britain--Church history.

Great Britain.

Church history.

Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Sackville, Richard (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Ross, Thomas Edward, 1867- (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 228, 230 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Memorial offer'd to the great deservings of John Williams

Fingerprint:

veha ntg, lyad fist (3) 1693 (R)

Place of Publication:

[London] In the Savoy: : Printed by Edw. Jones, for Samuel Lowndes, over against Exeter-Exchange in the Strand., MDCXCIII [1693]

Notes:

Title page in black and red.

Frontispiece portrait of the author signed: R. White Sculp.

"A memorial offer'd to the great deservings of John Williams, D·D· who sometimes held the places of Lord-keeper of the Great-Seal ... Part II." has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed for Samuel Lowndes," pagination and register.

Signatures: [A]² B-2F⁴ 2G², ²A-2F⁴.

Verso of each t.p. and p. [4] of preliminaries are blank.

Errata on p. [1]-[2] at end.

Advertisements on final leaf.

This is the first printed edition, although the work was composed in the 1650's (cf. DNB).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ownership inscription "Ri: Sackville pro: 17" and bookplate of Thomas Edward Ross ("Ex libris T. Edward Ross") on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy is part of the Ross Collection of Bibles given in memory of Lucien Bonaparte Carpenter to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) H171

ESTC R9469

OCLC:

1819593