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Shelfmark

Gh.6.07(02)

Title

The inscriptions upon the tombs, grave-stones, &c. in the dissenters burial place near Bunhill-fields..

Publication, distribution, etc.

London: : Printed for E. Curll, in Fleetstreet., 1717..

Physical description

[2], 46 p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)

Note

Price from imprint: price 1 s. 6 d.

Note

Signatures: B-G⁴ (4G blank)

Note

Pages 6, 7, and 10 printed landscape.

With note

Bound with Miscellanies upon several curious subjects, London, 1714 (Gh.6.07(01)).

Citation/references note

ESTC T37276

Provenance

19th century armorial bookplate of John Hannah on upper pastedown. The manuscript note attributing the bookplate to the John Hannah (1792-1867) 'from whom descended the first Warden of Glenalmond' may be incorrect: although his son, also named John Hannah (1818-1888) was Warden of Trinity College Glenalmond from 1854 to 1870, he was not its first (that was Christopher Wordsworth, the poet's nephew).

Provenance

18th? century armorial bookplate of John Wightwick Esquire on upper pastedown.

Provenance

20th century armorial bookplate, dated 1952, of James Edmund Kennedy and Ellen Jane Sausmarez Esdaile on second upper endpaper recto; manuscript note below bookplate reads "Presented . . . to the Library of Eton College MCMLIV".

Provenance

18th century manuscript inscription at head of p.iii: "Wm. Cole 1779."

Provenance

Booklabel of Eton College Library on first upper endpaper recto.

Provenance

Manuscript notes on i) upper pastedown, first upper endpaper recto, and second upper endpaper recto in an unidentified hand, containing biographical information on former owners and notes on pagination; and ii) first upper endpaper recto and verso, ascribed to John Hannah (1818-1888), chiefly about Aubrey and Wood, and attributing the loss of the title-page to "some Grangerite".

Provenance

Manuscript annotation in a 20th century hand on p. 21 (on the gravestone of William Blenner Hayfell) : "Query Blennerhassett".

Binding

18th century brown panelled calf; panel design comprising of intersecting double blind fillets; outer frame and inner compartment speckled; inner frame bordered with a semi-circular tool in blind with foliate ornaments at corners; outer border of double fillets; board edges tooled with a roll of alternating diagonal fillets. Spine with five raised bands, badly worn but with traces of sparse blind tooling. Textblock speckled red; endpapers undecorated.

Copy-specific note

Imperfect?: wanting gathering A?

Subject

Epitaphs Great Britain.

Subject

Epitaphs England London

Subject

Cemeteries England London

Subject

Dissenters, Religious

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England London

Identifier

B9906
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