Purchas his Pilgrimage
Book
1617 (published)
1617 (published)
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With woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and initials (1 factotum).
With a dedication to George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Printed marginalia.
Folio format in sixes.
Watermark: Pot.
Pages 196, 224, 263 & 449 respectively misnumbered 198, 208, 264 & 446.
Gathering Rr irregularly wormed - before binding.
Bound in England about 1617 in brown calf; covers panelled in blind with roll and with a floral ornament at the corners, and with the cartouche armorial stamp flanked by the initials "W" and "S" of Sir William Sidley in gold at the centres; turn-in edges gilt with roll; spine with five raised bands tooled with fillets; headbands.
Bottom edge titled in large black ink letters "Purchase" and the fore-edge is similarly marked "20".
Upper inside board with minor contemporary manuscript annotations.
Lower inside board with the names, in contemporary hands, of "Phinees Paget" (i.e. Phinias Paget of Trinity Cambridge, fl. 1626-1638) and "S. Sumpter" (i.e. Simon Sumpter of Trinity Cambridge, fl. 1617-1644).
Title page verso inscribed: "N 462 This Book is the property of Thomas Eyre of Burley near Ringwood Hants and is Numbered in his Collection Four hundred and Sixty Two ye 21 Feby 1786".
Title page verso inscribed: "Dup. ... [illeg.] ... Libry".
Folio Ddddd3 torn with loss of text; replacement leaf from a different copy loosly inserted.
With a dedication to George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Printed marginalia.
Folio format in sixes.
Watermark: Pot.
Pages 196, 224, 263 & 449 respectively misnumbered 198, 208, 264 & 446.
Gathering Rr irregularly wormed - before binding.
Bound in England about 1617 in brown calf; covers panelled in blind with roll and with a floral ornament at the corners, and with the cartouche armorial stamp flanked by the initials "W" and "S" of Sir William Sidley in gold at the centres; turn-in edges gilt with roll; spine with five raised bands tooled with fillets; headbands.
Bottom edge titled in large black ink letters "Purchase" and the fore-edge is similarly marked "20".
Upper inside board with minor contemporary manuscript annotations.
Lower inside board with the names, in contemporary hands, of "Phinees Paget" (i.e. Phinias Paget of Trinity Cambridge, fl. 1626-1638) and "S. Sumpter" (i.e. Simon Sumpter of Trinity Cambridge, fl. 1617-1644).
Title page verso inscribed: "N 462 This Book is the property of Thomas Eyre of Burley near Ringwood Hants and is Numbered in his Collection Four hundred and Sixty Two ye 21 Feby 1786".
Title page verso inscribed: "Dup. ... [illeg.] ... Libry".
Folio Ddddd3 torn with loss of text; replacement leaf from a different copy loosly inserted.
Object details
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| Title | Purchas his Pilgrimage (published title) |
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| Brief description | Purchas his Pilgrimage, : or Relations of the vvorld and the religions observed in al ages and places discovered, from the creation unto this present. In foure parts. This first contayneth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since, in those parts professed, with their severall opinions, idols, oracles, temples, priests, fasts, feasts, sacrifices, and rites religions: their beginnings, proceedings, alterations, sects, orders and successions. With briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoveries; private amd publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of nature, or humane industrie, in the same |
| Physical description | With woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and initials (1 factotum). With a dedication to George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. Printed marginalia. Folio format in sixes. Watermark: Pot. Pages 196, 224, 263 & 449 respectively misnumbered 198, 208, 264 & 446. Gathering Rr irregularly wormed - before binding. Bound in England about 1617 in brown calf; covers panelled in blind with roll and with a floral ornament at the corners, and with the cartouche armorial stamp flanked by the initials "W" and "S" of Sir William Sidley in gold at the centres; turn-in edges gilt with roll; spine with five raised bands tooled with fillets; headbands. Bottom edge titled in large black ink letters "Purchase" and the fore-edge is similarly marked "20". Upper inside board with minor contemporary manuscript annotations. Lower inside board with the names, in contemporary hands, of "Phinees Paget" (i.e. Phinias Paget of Trinity Cambridge, fl. 1626-1638) and "S. Sumpter" (i.e. Simon Sumpter of Trinity Cambridge, fl. 1617-1644). Title page verso inscribed: "N 462 This Book is the property of Thomas Eyre of Burley near Ringwood Hants and is Numbered in his Collection Four hundred and Sixty Two ye 21 Feby 1786". Title page verso inscribed: "Dup. ... [illeg.] ... Libry". Folio Ddddd3 torn with loss of text; replacement leaf from a different copy loosly inserted. |
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| Object history | Binding with cartouche armorial stamp flanked by the initials "W" and "S" of Sir William Sidley. Lower inside board with the names, in contemporary hands, of "Phinees Paget" (i.e. Phinias Paget of Trinity Cambridge, fl. 1626-1638) and "S. Sumpter" (i.e. Simon Sumpter of Trinity Cambridge, fl. 1617-1644). Title page verso inscribed: "N 462 This Book is the property of Thomas Eyre of Burley near Ringwood Hants and is Numbered in his Collection Four hundred and Sixty Two ye 21 Feby 1786". Title page verso inscribed: "Dup. ... [illeg.] ... Libry". Donated by Henry J.B. Clements in 1940. |
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| Other number | CLE PP13 - NAL Pressmark |
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| Library number | L.1867-1948 |
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| Record created | August 23, 2017 |
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