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Title: Annotations on The workes of John Boys.
Alternative Title: Boys, John, 1571-1625. The workes of John Boys. [London] : Imprinted [by R. Badger] for William Aspley, Anno 1629 [that is, 1638]
Creator: Vaughan, Henry.
Boys, John, 1571-1625
Contributor: Beaumont family, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: after 1638
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations in printed book.
Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations in a copy of the Workes of John Boys, likely made by Henry Vaughan, a contemporary owner whose name is inscribed on the title page. Though a description by the Marchmont Bookshop laid in at the front of the volume asserts that the Henry Vaughan who owned this book was the poet Henry Vaughan the Silurist, that does not appear certain. Annotations consist of marginal notes, manicules and other notations, as well as several longer text passages on blank leaves and at the end of the volume. It is possible that more than 1 roughly contemporary hand is present.
Condition: Bound in contemporary mottled calf.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--England--17th century.
Extent: [6], 562, [4], 563-988, [10] pages, bound; 28 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1rp5b
f BZ .B793w 1638 *
Language: English
Subject: Bible--Early works to 1800.
Boys, John, 1571-1625.--Workes of John Boys.
Place: England.
Provenance: Extensive typed description from Marchmont Bookshop laid in at the front of volume. From the collection of the Beaumont family of Leicestershire. Ownership inscriptions (partly crossed out) of Henry Vaughan on first title page and on title page following page 562.
Location: CLUW

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