Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, in three books. Illustrated with XLVII copper-plates
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Type of record: Book
Title: Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, in three books. Illustrated with XLVII copper-plates
Other titles: Pia desideria
Classmark: BC Lt d/HUG
Creator(s): Hugo, Herman (1588-1629)
Additional creator(s): Arwaker, Edmund (1730) (Other)
Related people: Arwaker, Edmund
Publisher: Printed for Henry Bonwicke
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1686
Language: English
Size and medium: [14], 267 p., 2 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/270023
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017865919705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Engraved frontispiece title facing printed title, possibly originally leaf A8, which is missing, although catchword on A7v (end of Preface) refers past illustration leaf for dedication to B2r (drophead "title" of dedication).
Unnumbered plate facing p. 1; the remaining 45 plates are included in the pagination (each book having 15 plates).
Wing H3350? Described, probably in error as "second edition".
Additional description
Gathering D misbound in order pages 31-34, 43-46, 39-42. Wanting last two leaves (blank?). A few small holes, one through signature O on p. 191. Inscription inside front cover, c.1690, Sum e libris Gulielmi Beauchamp. Signature c.1700-1750 on title page, Elizabeth Isaack [sic]. Sundry other inscriptions, scrawled over, on flyleaf, and inscriptions on recto of illustration leaf before dedication. Bookplate of T.E. Rogers [c.1700-1850] with inscription Bought at the sale 1844
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