Details

Subject(s)

• Great Britain—Commerce—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• East India Company [Browse]

Former owner

• Northumberland, Henry Percy, 9th earl of, 1564-1632 [Browse]
• Leconfield, Charles Henry Wyndham, Baron, 1872-1952 [Browse]
• McCormick, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Hall), 1859-1936 [Browse]
• Petworth House [Browse]

Related name

• J. R. (John Roberts) [Browse]

Printer

• Okes, Nicholas [Browse]

Bookseller

• Burre, Walter [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Armorial bindings [Browse]

Medium/​Support

4to. rdabf

Notes

• Preface signed: I. R.
• Written by Robert Kayll and wrongly ascribed to John Roberts. cf. William Foster, the author of "The trades increase," in London times literary supplement, March 29, 1934, p. 229: E. Lipson, the economic history of England, 1931, v. 2, p. 279.
• This edition has B3r catchword: this.
• Errata slip pasted onto recto of third prelim. leaf.
• Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy lacks errata slip and p. 37-38.
• Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy has leaves F2 supplied from copy signed E2; lacking F3.

Binding note

• Princeton copy 2 Ex copy: Bound in blue goatskin with heraldic badge of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (1564-1632) stamped in gilt on front cover. (Device of Percy on covers is 20th cent. replica of 17th cent. original.). Binding signed on front turn-in: Bound by Riviere & Son.
• Princeton copy 1 Three quarter leather; marbled boards.

Provenance

• Princeton copy 2 Ex copy: Purchased by Cyrus McCormick, class of 1879, at the Percy sale, April 1928 'bought through Walter M. Hill, Chicago.' Presented , in 1947-1948 to Princeton by McCormick's widow, in her name after remarriage, Mrs. Marshall Ludington Brown (Alice H. Brown).
• Princeton copy 1 Booklabel of Gordon W. Jones, M.D., Falmouth, Virginia.

Source acquisition

Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.

References

• ESTC S115494
• Sotheby & Co. (London, England). Catalogue of exceedingly rare and valuable Americana, with some important books & manuscripts largely from the library of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, sold by the order of his descendant, the Right Hon[oura]ble, Lord Leconfield (1928) lot 122.

Place name(s)

England London.

LCCN

06026243

OCLC

6286783

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