Shelfmark
Go.3.01
Additional shelfmark
Gm.3.09 - Gm.3.10 (Copy 2)
Title
De controversia in curia militari inter Ricardum Le Scrope et Robertum Grosvenor milites: rege Ricardo Secundo, MCCCLXXXV-MCCCXC. E recordis in turre Londinensi asservatis..
Varying form of title
Added title page title: The Scrope and Grosvenor controversy
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : [Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street] , [MDCCCXXXII.] [1832]
Physical description
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
Text printed in French, Latin, and English.
Note
Volume 2 has title: 'The controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor, in the Court of Chivalry ... containing A history of the family of Scrope and biographical notices of the deponents. By Sir N. Harris Nicolas, K.H. 1832.'
Note
Half title to v.1 reads: 'The Scrope and Grosvenor controversy.'
Note
Date of publication from title page to v.2; place of publication and publisher's name from verso of half title page to v.1.
Note
Only 100 (or 150?) copies printed for private circulation.
Note
The first volume contains the official record of the trial and the depositions of the witnesses printed from the original documents in the Record Office.
Note
A third volume treating of Grosvenor and his witnesses was projected but never published. -- Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, with ex dono of Mrs. Oliphant, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Michael Jones, engraved by H. Shaw, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Signature of J.R. Oliphant.
Provenance
(Copy 2) Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
(Copy 2) Manuscript note on the half title of the first volume recording the donation of the book to Samuel Bentley from the Committee of Subscribers.
Binding
19th-century brown cloth over millboards. Covers undecorated. spine flat with silver titling ("Controversia inter Scrope et Grosvenor"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated wove paper including pastedowns; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Binding
(Copy 2) 19th century brown cloth over millboards; label with titling on spine; untrimmed edges; one additional flyleaf at the beginning and end of volume.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect set: volume 1 only. Title page includes different section: "De cura militari, anno regni regis Ricardi secundi duodecimo".
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's advertisement glued on front pastedown.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 2) Inserted a prospectus of a work entitled 'History of the most noble order of the Garter' by George Frederick Beltz and a leaf on the forecoming publication 'The ancient Scotch metrical romance of Sir Gawayn and the Grene Knyzt'.
Subject
Subject
Heraldry Great Britain.
Added entry--name
Nicolas, Nicholas Harris (Sir), 1799 - 1848 Sir, editor.
Added entry--name
Oliphant (Margaret), 1828 - 1897 former owner.
Added entry--name
Bentley, Richard, 1794 - 1871 printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Bentley, Samuel, 1785 - 1868 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
fre lat eng
Identifier
B50923