Heraldic Manuscript--William Ryley and Henry Dethick | Visitation of Middlesex of 1663, manuscript

Heraldic Manuscript--William Ryley and Henry Dethick.

The Visitation of Middlesex began in the Year 1663, containing 95 genealogies of armigerous families, including descriptions of their arms, some with pencil illustrations of the arms, each with copy signature of the head of the family, a scribal copy, mid-18th century, contemporary foliation (to fol. 61) and index, 103 pages, also with 18 pages of engraved arms pasted in, plus blanks, folio (Pro Patria watermark), later calf-backed marbled boards, housed in a collector's folding box, paper folds, upper cover detached, lower cover weak at hinge, boards worn

AN EARLY COPY OF AN IMPORTANT RECORD OF WEALTHY GENTRY FAMILIES LIVING IN MIDDLESEX, from James Sheffield of Kensington and Thomas Collet of Chelsea, to John Woodward of Hampstead and William Meggs of Whitechapel. This Visitation of Middlesex was published by Gilmour and Nichols in 1830. 

PROVENANCE

George, Earl Macartney (1737-1806), armorial bookplate; sale of his library, Puttick and Simpson, 24 January 1854, lot 1020, to Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 13388)