The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh
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Type of record: Book
Title: The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh
Other titles: Historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh
Classmark: BC Gen quarto BAC
Publisher: Printed by W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes and William Barret
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1622
Language: English
Size and medium: 8 unnumbered pages, 248 pages (the first leaf blank)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/766424
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003286959705181
Description
First edition.
Signatures: [A]⁴, B-2I⁴.
Seven "faults escaped" are listed on p. 248.
Pagination of copy BC Gen quarto BAC is: frontispiece signed Iohn Payne Sculpsit, 4 unnumbered pages, 1-98, 103-248 pages.
Leeds University Library copy at BC Gen quarto BAC (another copy) has the reading Souldiers on page 3 line 12 listed first in STC and has six uncorrected errors. Lacking pages 99-102 ff. O2-3, of which page 101 has an error. Signatures [A2], B2-Z2, Aa-Ii2.
Many copies have mixed sheets from STC 1160, see also ESTC S122252.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 1159.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at BC Gen quarto BAC (another copy): loose excerpt from bookseller Christopher Edwards catalogue about this item
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at BC Gen quarto BAC (another copy): early calf (19th century?), re-backed later, gold tooled Bacon's Henry VII on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at BC Gen quarto BAC (another copy): acquired by Leeds University Library in 2023. MS inscription on title page in a contemporary [17th century] hand: Henrie Caluverley his booke [i.e. Henry Calverley (1604-1661) of Calverley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, whose father Walter attempted to murder him after murdering his two elder brothers in April 1605. This event was the source for the contemporary play A Yorkshire Tragedy, see BC Safe YOR. MS inscription on title page: John Yonge Akerman 1829 [i.e. John Yonge Akerman, originally Ackermann (1806-1873), numismatist and joint secretary of the Society of Antiquaries]. MS. annotations in ink in the margins of several pages about the text appear, also underlining, to be in Akerman's hand. Some pencil marks and an annotation on page 7 are in a different later hand. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Dear Sir, As you are curious in historical books, be pleased to accept of this history of Henry VIIth from your sincere
friend Wm Cobbett Jr [i.e. William Cobbett Jr (1798-1878), son of the journalist, writer, politician and radical William Cobbett]. He most probably presented this book to John Yonge Akerman. A. 6. inked on front flyleaf.
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