Heads, English & foreign collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret

Heads, English & foreign collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret

Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys Fermor, 1698-1761

[England] : [Henrietta Fermor]

1730

[201] leaves ; 54 cm

100 seventeenth-century window-mounted engraved portrait plates with manuscript biographies on facing pages; the first 50 biographies with decorative borders, most illuminated, the last 50 without borders. Portraits engraved by Wenceslas Hollar, Pierre Lombart, Crispin van de Passe and others.

Lansdowne, William Petty Marquis of, 1737-1805, former owner.
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, former owner.
Martin, Walter W. (Walter Willasey), 1840-1911, former owner.
Guildhall Library (Bath, England). former owner.

Binding: Contemporary diced russia, covers gilt with the countess of Pomfret's HLP monogram in the centre surmounted by a coronet, within a field of gilt ermine spots.

Bookplate of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelbourne; additional portrait plate of Lord Henry Petty, dated 1806.

Signed manuscript slip mounted on front pastedown: "The book, collected and illuminated by the granddaughter of the cruel Judge Jefferies, who was nearly killed by the mob at Taunton and died at Marlboro' Wilts, was bought by Henry Blayney Martin of Ashfield Lodge, Bury St. Edmunds at the sale of the Thomas, Lord Shelburne. Dying in 1824, he left this book to his daughter Mrs. Robert Fryer Phillips, wife of Major R.F. Phillips R.A. who on her decease at 6 Russell Str. Bath in 1871 left it to her nephew Walter W. Martin, the writer of this memorandum. Shepperton Rectory, Middx, [...] 18, 1878." [Mrs. Robert Fryer Phillips = Harriet Martin Phillips; Walter W. Martin gave the book to the Guildhall Library, Bath, in 1907.]

Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, engraver.
Lombart, Pierre, 1612-1682, engraver.
Passe, Crispijn van de, -1670, engraver.

English

NE218 .P66 1730