ca.1670-ca.1710
Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 10
Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
Name of creator:Style Sir Oliver.
Extent:1 vol. (78 ff.) Copies (1 pencil, 1 pen-and-ink wash) of two 18th-century oval portraits on verso of front free endpaper and recto of an inserted leaf facing it. Recto of front free endpaper bears inscription "John Boys His Book given him by his Mother. August 11. 1733", besides others. With armorial bookplate of Osmund Beauvoir. 18th-century calf binding with label inscribed: "John Boys His Book" and an identification of Boys as a descendant of Sir John Boys, 1607-64, Royalist military commander. With three tiny cut-out paper animals, found in the manuscript, now in a plastic folder
Language:English
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