1. Bacon ( Sir Francis) The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry The Seventh, first edition, first issue, Lady Jane Goodricke’s copy with her extensive annotations throughout, engraved frontispiece portrait, title trimmed slightly affecting inscription at head, Latin motto signed J.S.G. and an ink inscription: “My Lady Jane Goodricks gift to me Nove. 1st 1646 H.G.”, bookplate of H.L. Seymour on front pastedown, eighteenth diced calf, gilt, joints slightly splitting and rubbed, [Gibson 116a; STC 1159], folio, W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes and William Barret, 1622.
est. £400 – £600
Lady Jane Goodricke (c. 1581-1648), wife of Sir Henry Goodricke of Ribston Hall, Yorkshire (1580-1641), royalist.