Author: Thomas Howard; John Martin Robinson
Title: Arundel&Apos;S Remembrances. Remembrances of Things Worth Seeing in Italy Given to John Evelyn 25th April 1646 by Thomas Howard Earl of Arundel
Description: London, The Roxburghe Club, 1987. Leather. A work on Thomas Howard's remembrances of Italy. Illustrated, with a frontispiece and several tipped in plates. With a biographical introduction on Howard. Edited and with notes by John Martin Robinson. Privately printed at the Stourton Press for members of the Roxburghe Club. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love literature, history and music. He was a specialist on 17th century printer and bookseller, Humphrey Moseley and began his, unfortunately unfinished, PhD dissertation on him. Thomas Howard was a prominent English courtier during the reigns of King James I and Charles I. He made his name as a Grant Tourist and art collector. This work explains some of his experiences as a tourist in Italy. In original quarter calf with cloth covered boards. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear to the head and tail of spine. Some marks to cloth at front board. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, Christopher Rowe. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .

Keywords: John Martin Robinson Christopher Rowe Norwich Christopher Rowe None


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