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Title
The gentleman's calling.
Created/published
London : Printed by R. Norton, for Timothy Garthwait at the sign of the Kings Head in S. Pauls Church-yard, MDCLXII. [1662]
Description
[26], 176 p., [2] plates : ports. ; (8vo)
Associated name
Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681, author.
Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683, attributed name.
Pakington, Dorothy Coventry, Lady, -1679, attributed name.
Colt, Harris Dunscombe, 1901-1973, former owner.
Colt, Armida Maria-Theresa, former owner.
Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683, attributed name.
Pakington, Dorothy Coventry, Lady, -1679, attributed name.
Colt, Harris Dunscombe, 1901-1973, former owner.
Colt, Armida Maria-Theresa, former owner.
Note
Anonymous. By Richard Allestree. Sometimes attributed to Lady Dorothy Pakington, Richard Sterne, and others.
With an additional title page, engraved, dated 1660 (apparently the one proper to Wing A1115A).
"Private devotions" has separate dated title page; register and pagination are continuous.
With an additional title page, engraved, dated 1660 (apparently the one proper to Wing A1115A).
"Private devotions" has separate dated title page; register and pagination are continuous.
ESTC staff note
DFONOTE jre: DFo copy with two additional title pages, both dated 1660, add [2] leaves of plates to 300 (?); sigs: A⁸ [superscript chi]B⁴ B-M⁸; DFONOTE kkt pag.: [24], 176 p., [4] leaves of plates? (including two additional engraved title page's and two interior plates)
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000. Decade of Collecting (catalog entry 45)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 6:1)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 6:1)
Cited/described in
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 (2nd ed.), A1117
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R9290
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R9290
Genre/form
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
151- 426q
Folger-specific note
Manuscript markings; manuscript notes. Calf binding, re-backed. Provenance: inscription on front free end-paper: "John Swann"; inscription on front free end-paper: "Tabernacle House Library Presented by Mr. J. Swann."; bookplate of the Norwich Tabernacle Library; bought by the Folger from C. Richardson, 7 April 1955, 2674
Call number
222- 785q
Folger-specific note
Black goatskin with gilt decoration and light brown leather inlay; London? "cottage-roof" binding, by an imitator of John Fletcher, c. 1662 (cf. Bearman, Frederick A., Nati H. Krivatsky, J. Franklin Mowery. "Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library," 6:1). Provenance: inscriptions on t.p.: "E. Nicholas"; (with last name effaced): "John [?] 1752."; armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Synge, bart. (motto "coelestia canimus"); armorial bookplate of William Loring Andrews (motto "victrix fortunae sapientia"), with pencilled signature "W. L. Andrews" on front fly-leaf; bookplate of Cortlandt Field Bishop; Sir Robert Leighton copy (Sotheby's sale, 17 October 1960:lot 736); bookplate of Armida Maria-Theresa and Harris Dunscombe Colt; gift of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt, 1991