[Leather covered wooden box lined with printed leaves painted with floral designs]
Neville, Robert,1640 or 1641-1694.Poor scholar.
[England? : s.n.,
1649]
Presumably a box for storing a book.
Date of 1649 can be discerned as part of contemporary ink inscription on lid.
Box lid lined with reprints of Acts from the reign of Elizabeth I: An acte for the auoyding of recoueries suffered by collusion by tenauntes for tearme of lyfe, and such others. Box lined with leaf of Robert Neville's The poor scholar. London: Printed by Tho. Johnson for Francis Kirkman and Henry Marsh, 1662.
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