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001 $ 03/1999
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20191114124445.9
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Ashmole, Elias
245 1 3 $a The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies Of the most Noble Order Of The Garter. Collected and digested into one Body By Elias Ashmole of the Middle Temple Esq; Windesor Herald at Arms. A Work furnished with variety of matter, relating to Honor and Noblesse.
260 # # $a London, $b Printed by J. Macock, for Nathanael Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill, near theRoyal Exchange, ... $c MDCLXXII. $c [1672]
300 # # $a [12], 130, 135-6, 149-720, [104] p., frontis. (port.), [31] leaves carrying [37] pl. (15 dble., 1 fold.): $b illus.; $c 403 mm. (Quarto).
500 # # $a Despite the irregular pagination, the text and register are continuous. Page 710 is misnumbered as 610.

The leaves of plates carry no plate-numbers, but carry the numbers of the pages next to which they are to be bound. ESTC describes copies having [34] pl., but the Royal Academy's copy has the frontispiece and [31] leaves of plates, six of them carrying two prints, making a total of [37] prints in addition to the frontispiece. Of the 31 leaves of plates that at p.144 carries 2 prints and those at pp. 708/709, 710/711, 712/713, 714/715, 716/717 carry two prints, one on the recto and one on the verso.
505 0 # $a [License-to-print, t.p., frontis., dedic.] - Preface - The Contents Of the Chapters - [Text, with pl.] - [Blank leaf] - Appendix: The Statutes of Institution ... - Errata.
508 # # $a The frontispiece portrait of King Charles II is signed as engraved by W. Sherwin. Several plates are signed as drawn and engraved by W. Hollar, or as made by W. Hollar. Plate [23] is signed as designed by Marcus Gerard and made by W. Hollar.

The work is dedicated by Ashmole to King Charles II.
510 0 # $a R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607-1677 (1982).

M. Hunter et al., Elias Ashmole, 1617-92 (1983). A survey is G. Parry, The trophies of time: English antiquarians of the seventeenth century (1995).
510 4 # $a ESTC $c R225555
520 2 # $a The publication-date is given as 1672 on the title-page; some plates carry earlier publication-dates (1663, 1666, 1667, 1670).

ESTC (at R225555) describes this as a revision of an earlier issue (ESTC R16288), which had 719 pages: in the present issue pp. 717-9 have been reset and some mispaginations have been corrected.
561 # # $a Acquired by 1802. Recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
562 # # $a A blank leaf has been bound in between p.720 and the first page of the Appendix.
563 # # $a 20th-century brown morocco; gilt-decorated spine, lettered 'Ashmole's Order Of The Garter' and 'R.A.'.
610 2 4 $a Order of the Garter
653 # # $a Orders of knighthood and chivalry - Associations - Ceremonies - Rules of procedure - Great Britain - Berkshire - Windsor Castle - History
655 # # $a Treatises - Great Britain - 17th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 17th century
700 1 # $a Brooke, Nathaniel $e bookseller
700 1 # $a Hollar, Wenceslaus
700 1 # $a Macock, John $e printer
700 1 # $a Geeraerts, Marcus
700 0 # $a Charles II $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Sherwin, William
852 8 # $d 1802: P-0-08; 1821: 4-5-02.