Clark (Hugh, Heraldic Engraver), A Concise History of Knight...

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£110

Clark (Hugh, Heraldic Engraver), A Concise History of Knighthood [...], The whole imbellished (sic) with 82 Copper Plates [...], two-volume set, first and only edition, London: Printed for W. Strahan [...], 1784, pp: x, [1] (blank), 285; [ii], 268, [1] (advert), 82 copperplate engravings as called for, contemporary calf over marbled boards, yellow-stained edges, 8vo, [2]

Provenance: 1) Nicholas Nicholas (née Heath; d. 1807), of Boy Court, Ulcombe Kent, his ink MS ownership inscription to each pastedown. Nicholas was a friend and later brother-in-law of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire; and as a member of the Markeaton Hunt was painted as such by Joseph Wright of Derby, ARA, in c. 1762-63. Born Heath, in 1772 he assumed the surname to Nicholas to comply with inheriting the manor of Ulcombe; 2) reputedly purchased from the sale at Newnham Hall, Daventry, Northamptonshire, sold by Christie's on behalf of the Executors of Lt.-Colonel John Chandos-Pole, CVO, OBE. Though the books were purchased in a mixed lot, a portrait miniature of Nicholas by Ozias Humphry, RA, Lot 287, was also sold and illustrated in the catalogue.