Shelfmark
Ib3.4.61
Title
Original letters of eminent literary men : of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries / with notes, and illustrations by Sir Henry Ellis.
Varying form of title
Spine title: Letters of eminent literary men
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed for the Camden Society by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1843.
Physical description
vii, 460 p. : 2 facsims. (incl. front.) ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Series statement
(Works of the Camden Society ; no. 23)
Note
Includes letters of Camden, Sir Symonds D'Ewes, Strype, Udall, Cheke and Abbé Mann to Sir Joseph Banks.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Binding
19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge; gold tooled cloth used to cover the spine in previous binding pasted on rear flyleaf.
Subject
English letters 18th century.
Subject
English letters 17th century.
Subject
English letters 16th century.
Subject
Great Britain Intellectual life.
Subject
Great Britain History Sources.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Camden Society (Great Britain) publisher.
Added entry--name
J. B. Nichols and Sons printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35440