Shelfmark
Gc.7.24(63)
Title
Strange and horrible news which happened betwixt St. Iohns street, and Islington on Thursday morning, being the eight and twentieth day of this instant moneth of October. Being a terrible murther committed by one of Sir Sander Duncomes beares on the body of his gardner, that usually came to feed them, where thousands of people were eye-witnesses. Also with what strange meanes and manner they used to make him loose his savage hold by muskets, pikes, and mastive dogs, which could not be, till he had torne his bowells (the man lying on his belly) thorow his back..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Printed at London : for T. Smith, 1642.
Physical description
[8] p. ; 19 cm (4to)
Note
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Octob: 28".
Note
Signatures: A⁴.
Note
Includes title ornament, head- and tail-pieces, and decorated initial.
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed.), S5818
Citation/references note
Thomason, E.124[24]
Citation/references note
ESTC, R21558
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College, undated, on front pastedown.
Binding
Sammelband. 17th-century speckled calfskin over ?pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border; gilt fillet on board edges. Spine re-backed, with blind and fillets and gilt titling over red morocco label ("Petitions etc. 1641, 2 Vol. VII"). Textblock trimmed and dyed red. Endpapers of modern undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock. 20th-century repairs by R.L. Day.
Copy-specific note
Bound with 100 other items.
Subject
Aggressive behavior in animals Early works to 1800.
Subject
Bears Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52553