Shelfmark
P.Rox.1904a
Author
Title
The nobility of women / by William Bercher, 1559 ; now for the first time edited with introduction and notes by R. Warwick Bond.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Privately printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 1904.
Physical description
xvii, 198 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., facsims., port. ; 34 cm.
Series statement
(Roxburghe Club)
Note
"One hundred copies only printed."
Note
An abridged translation of "La nobilità delle donne ... Ferrarii, 1549", by Lodovico Domenichi, who based his work on a treatise by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa published at Antwerp, 1529, with title, "De nobilitate & praecellentia foeminei sexus".
Note
"Presented to the members of the Roxburghe club by Charles Brinsley Marlay."
Note
Listed as no. 142 in the 1913 Catalogue of books presented to and printed by the club.
Note
Title-page verso: "Chiswick Press : Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London".
Note
20th century light brown leather quarter-binding; paper covered boards; gilt top-edge.
Provenance
Earl of Rosebery's copy.
Provenance
Bookplate of Rosebery on front pastedown with Eton College Library armorial bookplate; further bookplate presenting the book from Lord Rosebery.
Subject
Women Social and moral questions.
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Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 1847 - 1929 former owner.
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Chiswick Press. printer.
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England London.
Identifier
B44679