Plate [184] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Selden, Spelman, Cotton and Leland along a tomb, with one of Ashmole leaning at right, before a ruined arch and surrounding buildings, a mountain in the background, a pick and jug spilling gold in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Antiquaries
Description:
Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [184] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published 25 Feby. 1798, by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. John Lydgate's Life of St. Margaret follows the Chaucer text
Alternative Title:
Devonshire Chaucer
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 39-42 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: full illuminated border on first page of text, including large portrait initial of author; other illuminated initials with decorated borders and elaborate penwork initials., Bookplate: Chatsworth., and Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
