Author: Marjorie Blatcher; G. Dyfnallt Owen [editors]
Title: Report on the Manuscripts of the Most Honourable the Marquess of Bath Preserved at Longleat
Description: London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1967-1980. First edition. Cloth. Two very scarce volumes from the Historical Manuscripts Commission relating to the Marquess of Bath. Two volumes. First edition. Historical Manuscripts Commission 58, Volumes IV and V only. Very scarce. This set contains: Seymour Papers 1532-1686, 1967. The complete papers beginning with the arrangements for the interview between Henry VIII and Francis I at Calais in 1532, and ending with the winding up of the affairs of Frances, dowager Duchess of Somerset, who died in 1674. Edited by Marjorie Blatcher, a British historian, author, and editor. Talbot, Dudley and Devereux Papers 1533-1659, 1980. The concluding volume of the Commission's calendar of the manuscript collections of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat. Dealing with the papers of three great Elizabethan courtiers. Edited by Geraint Dyfnallt Owen, a British historian. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities and light rubbing. The odd small mark to the boards. Original dust wrapper for volume IV is price-clipped while the wrapper for volume V remains unclipped. Dust wrappers are very smart with minor wear and light sunning to the extremities. The odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot to the endpapers. Contemporary pencil inscriptions to the front endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Manuscripts Marquess of Bath Longleat Blatcher Marquess of Bath None


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