The Devises Motto's &c used by the Parliament Officers on Standards, Banners, &c. in the late Civil Wars;taken from an Original Manuscript done at that time, now in ye hands of Benja.n Cole of Oxford: Published at ye Desire of divers Gentleman to be Bound upw.h ye Lord Clarendon's Hist.ry. Price 5.sh
Sold by Benj. Cole in Bear Lane [n.d., c.1710.]
Engraved broadside with contemporary hand colour. Dissected into four sheets, each 325 x 195mm (12¾ x 7¾"), plus original title 35 x 390mm (1¼ x 15¼") Trimmed, laid on album paper, title folded in half and pasted above top left section.
A very scarce sheet of 48 illustrations of Parliamentarian banners, each with a caption. Although the title states the sheet was to be issued in an edition of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon's 'The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England' (first published 1704), the colour suggests this example was a separate issue. The printed area is complete, but the four sections have been pasted in the wrong order, with the caption to Captain Trenchard's banner in the wrong place. The British Museum example has similar (but not identical) colour, is bisected horizontally and has Cole's publication line damaged.
BM: 1852,0214.554-555.
[Ref: 42951] £1,500.00
Engraved broadside with contemporary hand colour. Dissected into four sheets, each 325 x 195mm (12¾ x 7¾"), plus original title 35 x 390mm (1¼ x 15¼") Trimmed, laid on album paper, title folded in half and pasted above top left section.
A very scarce sheet of 48 illustrations of Parliamentarian banners, each with a caption. Although the title states the sheet was to be issued in an edition of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon's 'The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England' (first published 1704), the colour suggests this example was a separate issue. The printed area is complete, but the four sections have been pasted in the wrong order, with the caption to Captain Trenchard's banner in the wrong place. The British Museum example has similar (but not identical) colour, is bisected horizontally and has Cole's publication line damaged.
BM: 1852,0214.554-555.
[Ref: 42951] £1,500.00