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The Privy Purse Expences of King Henry the Eighth, NICOLAS (Nicholas Harris).
From November MDXXIX to December MDXXII: With Introductory Remarks and Illustrative Notes.
Title printed in red and black with woodcut arms.
First Edition. 8vo. Large Paper Copy. [235 x 140 x 43 mm]. [3]ff, xlvi, 372 pp. Bound in contemporary hard-grained purple goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a fillet border and panel with arabesque corners, and at the centre the arms of Frederick Perkins. The spine divided into six panels by thick gilt tooled bands, lettered in the second and fifth, the others with arabesque compartments, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt fillets, light yellow endleaves, gilt edge. (Front joint cracked but holding).
London: [printed by Thomas White for] William Pickering, Chancery Lane, 1827.
One of only 12 large paper copies. A very good clean copy. With the gilt arms of Frederick Perkins (1780-1860) of Chipstead Place in Kent, brewer and High Sheriff. He left his library to his second son, George, and a portion of his library was sold at Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge on 10/7/1889. Bought from Howes Bookshop in 1998.
Stock no. ebc8472
From November MDXXIX to December MDXXII: With Introductory Remarks and Illustrative Notes.
Title printed in red and black with woodcut arms.
First Edition. 8vo. Large Paper Copy. [235 x 140 x 43 mm]. [3]ff, xlvi, 372 pp. Bound in contemporary hard-grained purple goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a fillet border and panel with arabesque corners, and at the centre the arms of Frederick Perkins. The spine divided into six panels by thick gilt tooled bands, lettered in the second and fifth, the others with arabesque compartments, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt fillets, light yellow endleaves, gilt edge. (Front joint cracked but holding).
London: [printed by Thomas White for] William Pickering, Chancery Lane, 1827.
One of only 12 large paper copies. A very good clean copy. With the gilt arms of Frederick Perkins (1780-1860) of Chipstead Place in Kent, brewer and High Sheriff. He left his library to his second son, George, and a portion of his library was sold at Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge on 10/7/1889. Bought from Howes Bookshop in 1998.
Stock no. ebc8472
From November MDXXIX to December MDXXII: With Introductory Remarks and Illustrative Notes.
Title printed in red and black with woodcut arms.
First Edition. 8vo. Large Paper Copy. [235 x 140 x 43 mm]. [3]ff, xlvi, 372 pp. Bound in contemporary hard-grained purple goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a fillet border and panel with arabesque corners, and at the centre the arms of Frederick Perkins. The spine divided into six panels by thick gilt tooled bands, lettered in the second and fifth, the others with arabesque compartments, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt fillets, light yellow endleaves, gilt edge. (Front joint cracked but holding).
London: [printed by Thomas White for] William Pickering, Chancery Lane, 1827.
One of only 12 large paper copies. A very good clean copy. With the gilt arms of Frederick Perkins (1780-1860) of Chipstead Place in Kent, brewer and High Sheriff. He left his library to his second son, George, and a portion of his library was sold at Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge on 10/7/1889. Bought from Howes Bookshop in 1998.
Stock no. ebc8472