Inscribed in ink inside the front board, ‘Phillipps MS/ 2795’, and three affixed paper labels:
The first, printed ‘Bernard Quaritch’s Catalogue, No. 565’ with added in ink, ‘July 1939.’
Second, SAL printed bookplate
Third, cutting from Quaritch booksellers’ catalogue, cat. 1247, ‘Swan marks. A Collection of Drawings of Swanmarks, with Names of families to which they belong. Manuscript on vellum, oblong 8vo., 86 pp. with index of names …. From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Middle Hill; no. 2795 in his collection’
Stamped on opposite page with Phillipps’s lion rampant crest above ‘Sir T.P. / Middle Hill’ with added number 2795 in ink
Preceding the swan marks are index pages, the names arranged in two columns, written in red ink. The pages of marks are arranged in two columns (or rows as they now appear in this oblong format bound arrangement) with twelve marks per page. The bills are portrayed diagrammatically within four ruled red lines, in black ink, names in red ink above each beak and numbers in red ink. Titled owners are placed before the alphabetical sequence, commencing with the swan marks of James I and Anne of Denmark and including the mark of Lord Wentworth (Baron Wentworth 1628; Earl of Strafford 1640).
The Phillipps swan roll or register is described and/or illustrated in TIC/002, TIC/011 and TIC/014.
In TIC/011 Ticehurst notes that the Phillipps roll TIC/016 resembles BL Egerton 2413, has a total of 704 marks, and was made c. 1630.