Author: ROWS (John)
Title: This rol was laburd & finished by Master John Rows, of Warrewyk. [A pictorial History of the Earls of Warwick, from a roll headed as above; edited with an Introduction by W. Courthope].
Description: London: William Pickering, 1845[-1859]. 4to, [4], [24], [52], 24pp., one of 100 copies, frontispiece and title printed in brown, 32 un-coloured plates, some ink corrections and learned notes to text, orig. embossed brown cloth, short tears to joints, spine lettered in gilt. This famous chronicle roll traces the history of the Earls of Warwick up to about 1484. It was acquired by the British Museum in 1955 and is known by the name of the artist John Rous (1411 - 1491), the Chantry Priest of Guy's Cliffe, Warwick. Although the date on the title is 1845 this work was not published 1859. William Pickering had died in 1854 leaving the work unfinished, but after the sale of his property it came into the hands of Henry Bohn who completed the work in 1859.

Keywords: HERALDRY WARKWICKSHIRE WILLIAM PICKERING