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
Genre/Form
Local histories
Added entry--name
Curll, Edmund, 1675 - 1747 printer.
Added entry--name
Hannah, J. (John), 1818 - 1888 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hannah, John, 1792 - 1867 former owner.
Added entry--name
Cole, William, 1714 - 1782 former owner.
Added entry--name
Esdaile, James Edmund Kennedy, 1910 - 1994 former owner.
Added entry--name
Esdaile, Ellen Jane Sausmarez, 1906 - 1984 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London
Identifier
B9906