Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHARLES I. Instructions which His Maiesties Commissioners for the loane of money to His Maiestie throughout the Kingdome are exactly and effectually to obserue and follow. [Royal Arms.] London, Printed by Bonham Norton and lohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. 1626. quarto. At the end is the printed note : ‘ These instructions for the ease of transcribing, and the speedier dispatch of the seruice, are ordered to be Printed, but no more Copies to be made or taken, then shall bee deliuered to the Commissioners vpon their diuiding themselues into seuerall parts of the County, for execution of the Commission.’ This copy has the king’s signature on the first page of text, and was intended for use by the Commissioners ‘in our Towne of Nottingham.’ The instructions given are very minute, and designed to put the maximum of pressure on unwilling lenders with the least publicity possible. No other printed copy of the ‘ Instruc- tions ’ is known. Bought in 1894. EMBROIDERED BINDING. The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, loh. Hopkins, and others. London Imprinted for the Company of Stationers. 1633. 3 in. x 2. In an embroidered binding of very unusual freshness, said to have belonged to Mrs. Osborn, one of Queen Henrietta’s ladies-in- waiting. The design on the upper cover represents a cavalier, that on the lower a lady. The volume has still its original long silk tie, and a book-mark with a picture of Charles I. and the legend, ‘ From prison bring Your captive king.’ With it came the embroidered bag in which it was carried to church. Though the designs on the covers are poor, from its freshness and the retention of all its accessories this little embroidered Psalm-book is one of the most interesting of its kind which have been preserved. Bought in 1894. LITTLE GIDDING HARMONY. The Actions, Doctrine and other Passadges touching our Lorde and Sauiour lesus Christ as they are