Shelfmark
CSR.1377
Author
Title
The life of Thomas Egerton, Lord Chancellor of England..
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Paris : s.n., ca. 1828?]
Physical description
508 p. ; 32 cm. (4to)
Language
Text in Latin, French, and Spanish, with English titles and annotations.
Note
Caption title.
Note
Primarily printed in double columns.
Note
Place and date of publication taken from the British Museum Catalogue.
Note
Part of the text reprinted from the enlarged 1798 edition of vol.V of Kippis's "Biographia Britannica".
Note
With copious reprints of historical documents, chiefly from MSS in the possession of F.H. Egerton, now the Egerton MSS in the British Museum.
Note
Unfinished; no more published.
Note
Mistakes in pagination: p.300 and 436 repeated twice ("300 twice" and "300 thrice"; "436 twice" and "436 thrice"), p.425-428 repeated once ("425bis-428bis").
Note
At foot of the first leaf of each gathering: "Vol. I".
Note
Tipped-in French octavo sheet after p. 160 indicating this as the "dernière édition, in quarto" and that it was left unfinished due to the printer's bankruptcy.
Note
Tipped-in French octavo sheet at end indicating this quarto edition is further corrected and substantially expanded.
Provenance
Ms. inscription in black ink on the front pastedown, reading: "Eton College Library", and "A O H [crossed out] 3.8 [in pencil]".
Binding
Bound in half white paper over brown paper boards; reddish paper wrappers bound in; rough edges; plain endpapers; binder's stamp on front pastedown: "Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd. Binders".
Copy-specific note
Reference collection.
Subject
Subject
Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre lat spa eng
Identifier
B54427