The life and death of Sr. Thomas Moore : who was Lord Chancelor of England to King Henry the Eight.

The life and death of Sr. Thomas Moore : who was Lord Chancelor of England to King Henry the Eight.

[London] : Printed for N[icholas]. V[avasour], 1642.

[2], 432 p. ; (4to)

By Cresacre More. Has been erroneously ascribed to his brother Thomas. Cf. DNB, v. 38, p. 448.

Place of publication from NUC pre-1956 imprints. Printer's name from Wing CD.

Title page is a cancel.

Akrigg, G.P.V. "The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope." In Joseph Quincy Adams: Memorial Studies, edited by James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby, 785-801. Washington, DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1948.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), M2630
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R7630

Great Britain -- England -- London.

M2630 copy 1

cs799. Sprinkled calf with gilt tooled spine panels; sprinkled edges. Manuscript marks. Lacking port. Provenance: inscription on t.p. verso: "Mary Aston her Book Sepber. 1703"

M2630 copy 2

cs1828. Sprinkled calf binding with blind double fillet border, false spine panels and gilt edges of boards. Copious manuscript marginal notes; on t.p. Manuscript note: "The Writing in the Margins was by Philip Earl of Pembroke in Charles the first's Reign and is very singular"; according to Folger card catalogue, "contains many manuscript notes, attributed by Walpole to Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, but actually by Charles Stanhope, Baron Stanhope of Harrington." Lacking port. and leaves 3H3,4. Provenance: Earl of Pembroke copy?; Baron Stanhope copy?; engraved armorial bookplate of Horatio Walpole (motto "fari quae sentiat")