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The historie of the reigne of King Henry the Seventh / written by the Right Hon. Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount S. Alban ; whereunto is now added a very usefull and necessary table.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio DA330 .B12 1641 Frost copy
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio DA330 .B12 1641
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
- Standardized Title:
- Historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--Henry VII, 1485-1509.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Napleton, Thomas (autograph) (Frost Collection copy)
- Henry Sotheran Ltd. (stamp) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 248 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 29 cm (folio)
- Fingerprint:
- ndes 58h. s,of poan (3) 1641 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by R.Y. [that is, Robert Young] and R.H. [that is, Richard Hodgkinson] and are sold by R. Meighen ..., anno Domini 1641.
- Notes:
- The printers R.Y. and R.H. are Robert Young and Richard Hodgkinson. Cf. ESTC.
- Signatures: [A]⁴ a⁴ B-2I⁴ (leaf [A]1 blank).
- "Frontis. portrait (plate) of the author signed: Will: Marshall sculpsit. 1640."--ESTC.
- Title within woodcut border; woodcut initials, head-pieces and tail-piece.
- Text within ruled borders.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy imperfect: frontispiece portrait wanting.
- Frost Collection copy imperfect: leaf [A]1 (blank) and frontispiece plate (portrait) wanting.
- Frost Collection copy has bookseller's ms. note in pencil on back free endpaper.
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy has early autograph ("Tho: Napleton") at head of title leaf; bookseller's stamp ("SOTHERAN. SACKVILLE ST. LONDON") on verso of front free endpaper.
- Frost Collection copy: title leaf cropped at fore-edge margin with minor damage to woodcut border.
- Cited in:
- Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 352
- Wing (2nd ed.) B298
- ESTC R11984
- Gibson, R.W. Francis Bacon, a bibliography of his works and Baconiana to the year 1750, 120
- OCLC:
- 2046949
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