£100
English Catholicism and Recusancy. The Office of the Holy Week According to the Roman Missal and Breviary [...], third edition thus, [London]: Printed for T. Meighan in Drury-Lane, 1738, engraved frontispiece and plates, finely bound in a contemporary armorial binding of crimson morocco gilt, the covers blocked in gilt with a coat of arms supralibros within a Rococo cartouche, rolled and tooled foliate borders, the spines with IHS christograms, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, joints split, lower-cover almost detached, bumps and slight wear, 12mo, [&] [?Joyner (William)], Some Observations Upon the Life of Reginaldus Polus Cardinal of the Royal Bloud (sic) of England. [...], sole edition, London: Printed for Mathew Turner at the Lamb in High-Holbourn, 1686, cropped black-ruled title-page, 142pp, toned, stained in places, later 18th/19th c sheep, almost disbound, 8vo, [Wing J1160], (2)
Provenance: 2nd: 1) Joseph Tasker (d. 1860), of Middleton Hall, Essex, his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown. 2) ?Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, (1792-1872), antiquary and bibliomaniac who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century, whose dispersal, following his death, took over 100 years. Verso of ffep with 20th c pencilled provenance attribution.
The first sold as a binding and not subject to return, though apparently OK. The second sold collated.
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