Prince (John), Danmonii orientales illustres: or, The Worthi...

Hammer

£100

Prince (John), Danmonii orientales illustres: or, The Worthies of Devon [...], first edition, Exeter: Printed by Sam. Farley, for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row, London; and Charles Yeo and Philip Bishop in Exon, 1701, black-ruled title-page, erroneous pagination, lacking signatures 7B² only, in-text illustrations of coats of arms, occasional marginal glosses and heraldic corrections in a contemporary hand, the odd ink stain and stable marginal tear, original recto and verso blanks annotated in a slightly later 18th c hand, later Regency russia boards, armorial covers rolled in blind and enclosed within a double-line gilt fillet, rebacked, later gilt-lettered morocco piece, contemporary gilt edges and green endpapers, the former with Regency binder's ticket, folio (38.5 x 25.5cm)


Provenance: 1) Ar: Chichester, recto blank and title-page with contemporary ink MS ownership inscription, the glosses and corrections almost certainly by the same hand. 2) Sir Richard Borough, 1st Baronet (1756-1837), of Ham Common, Surrey, and later Coolock Park, Co. Dublin; his armorial supralibros to each cover.