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Title: Annotations on A collection of English proverbs.
Alternative Title: Ray, John, 1627-1705. A collection of English proverbs. Cambridge [Eng.]: Printed by J. Hayes, for W. Morden, 1670.
Creator: Ray, John, 1627-1705
Contributor: Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner.
Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884, former owner.
Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878, former owner.
Thorpe, Thomas, 1791-1851, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: after 1670
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: Interleaved and annotated copy of John Ray's A collection of English proverbs. This has been previously described as Ray's copy of his text, but this is unsubstantiated. The text has been copiously annotated in a contemporary hand with additional proverbs and other textual information, written both on the interleaves and in the margins and blank spaces of the printed book.
Condition: Bound in red morocco in 1868 with the arms of Sir William Stirling Maxwell; front and back cover detached.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--England--17th century.
Bookplates (Provenance)--England--19th century.
Extent: [638] pages, bound; 17 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1tp4k
QH31 .R2 C6 *
Language: English
Subject: Proverbs--Early works to 1800.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.--Collection of English proverbs.--1670.
Place: England.
Provenance: Armorial binding and bookplate of William Stirling Maxwell; note signed by Stirling Maxwell (dated Keir, July 1868) on first preliminary page noting purchase of this volume at the H.G. Bohn sale at Sotheby's in 1868 and that 13 leaves previously missing have been added when the book was put in its current binding. Inscribed "From Mr. Heber's Collection, Thomas Thorpe" on second preliminary page. Note in contemporary hand on page facing title page: "Ray's Proverbs subsequent to 1678." Heber Sale, 20 November 1834 lot 2728; H.G. Bohn sale, 1868, lot 6795.
Location: CLUW

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