Shelfmark
Cm.2.02 - Cm.2.03 (Set 1)
Additional shelfmark
Gl.1.01 - Gl.1.02 (Set 2)
Main entry--corporate name
Title
The register of the most noble Order of the Garter, from its cover in black velvet, usually called the Black Book; with notes placed at the bottom of the pages and an introduction prefixed by the editor. In two volumes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed by John Barber upon Lambeth-hill,, MDCCXXIV. [1724]
Physical description
2 v., plates (some double) ; ill. (engravings) ; 40 cm. (Fo.)
Language
Text in Latin and English.
Note
Edited by John Anstis.
Note
Additional engraved title-pages in Latin.
Note
Includes head- and tail- vignettes and decorated initials.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T140331
Provenance
(Set 1) Bookplate of Eton College. Signature: "Gustavus Brander 1782" (?Gustavus Brander, 1720-1787, from the sale of his library in 1790?).
Provenance
(Set 2) 19th-century armorial bookplate of Eton School Library with ex dono of Mrs. Oliphant on front pastedown.
Binding
(Set 1) 18th century gold-tooled calf.
Binding
(Set 2) ?19th-century speckled calfskin over ?strawboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillet to form a border; initials "MB" on upper and lower covers; blind roll on board edges. Spine with six raised bands, decorated with gilt tools and titling (faded). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
(Set 1) Previously Cl.2.15-16 and Cl.2.10-11.
Copy-specific note
(Set 2) Former shelfmark (presumably of School Library): A 92(c).
Subject
Subject
Orders of knighthood and chivalry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Anstis, John, 1669 - 1745 editor.
Added entry--name
Barber, John, 1675 - 1740 printer.
Added entry--name
Brander, Gustavus, 1720 - 1787 former owner.
Added entry--name
Oliphant (Margaret), 1828 - 1897 former owner.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B14514