£45
The Henham Park Copy, Provincial Imprint, Betham (The Rev. William), The Baronetage of England, or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables [...], five-volume set bound as three, first and only edition, Ipswich: Burrell and Bransby, 1801-1805, 12 engraved armorial plates only, contemporary mottled calf, gilt Neoclassical spines, 4to, [3]
An interesting Suffolk association copy, the Reverend William Betham (1749-1839) was resident in Stradbroke village, and it was where his son Sir William (1779-1853), later Ulster King of Arms, was born.
Provenance: 1) John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (1750-1827), of Henham Park, Suffolk, his Spade Shield Armorial bookplates as Baron Rous (1796-1827) and the later library stamp of an earl's coronet above Stradbroke in Gothic Black Letter; 2) by descent at Henham Park until a house sale by local auction c. 1953?, lot stickers of that date numbered 1178 on endpapers; 3) eventually with Heraldry Today, their tickets.
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