Wotton, Henry, Sir. Ad Regem è Scotia reducem Henrici VVottonij plausus et vota

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General notes

The roman numeral date is made with turned C's Signatures: [par.]² A-N² On unwatermarked paper; printer's mark McKerrow 249β on title page. Some of these copies are cut down to 4⁰ size. Variant 1: large-paper copies, with pot or shield watermark. Variant 2: as variant 1, but lacking printer's mark Stationers' register: Entered to H. Robinson 21 November [1633]

Item information about Folger STC 26010

6/4/42. Variant 2. Large paper copy. MS. numbered "871" on t.p. Limp vellum binding, with evidence of ties. Provenance: stamped on verso of t.p.: Soc. Reg. Lond ex dono Henr. [Ko ?]ward Norfolciensis; anonymous armorial bookplate of the Royal Society of London (motto "nullius in verba"); armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke; Sotheby sale of Sir John Arthur Brooke, 25 May 1921; bought by the Folger from Sotheby's, May 1942