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Title
Annotations on A help to English history. [Volume 1]
Alternative Title
Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662. A help to English history. London: Printed for T. Basset, at the George in Fleet-Street, and C. Wilkinson at the Black-Boy over against Saint Dunstan's-Church, 1680.
Creator
Pennington, Montagu, 1762-1849.
Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662
Contributor
Sparrow, S., former owner.
Roper, John, Esq., former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued
[1786?]
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 by Montagu Pennington on a 1680 copy of Peter Heylyn's Help to English history. Annotations written on both interleaved pages and on margins provide more and updated information regarding the families and crests represented by Heylyn.
Condition: Volume 1 bound in contemporary motled calf; volume 2 bound in later calf; both volumes re-backed in lighter-colored mottled calf, with red spine labels and red speckled edges.
Type
text
Form/Genre
Bookplates (Provenance)--England--18th century.
Inscriptions (Provenance)--England--18th century.
Inscriptions (Provenance)--England--19th century.
Extent
2 volumes (640, 662 pages); 16 cm
Identifier
ark:/21198/n1sw2k
DA30 .H617 1680 copy 3 *
Language
English
Subject
Nobility--Great Britain--Chronology--Early works to 1800.
Heraldry--England--Early works to 1800.
Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.--Help to English history.--1680.
Place
England--Kent.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of John Roper, Esq. on front paste-down endpaper of volume 1; Descendancy chart of Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry VII in the hand of Montagu Pennington, laid in at front of volume 1; "M.P. 1786 0,1,0," "Montagu Pennington" and 'S. Sparrow, from my mother T.L. Sparrow, May, 1855" inscribed on page facing title page in volume 1.
Location
CLUW

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