Title: Household books of John Duke of Norfolk, and Thomas Earl of Surrey, from the original manuscripts in the library of the Society of Antiquaries, London.
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">4to. ff. [3], pp. xxix, 525, [1]. Original Roxburghe boards. John Payne Collier’s own copy, inscribed to him by Earl Powis ‘with the best compliments &amp; thanks of the Roxburghe Club.’</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">The ‘Howard Household Books,’ are two manuscript books detailing the household expenses of Sir John Howard and his son Thomas. Regular accounts for the period 23 February 1481-20 October 1483 are followed by miscellaneous entries made between 1484 and 1491. Collier had called attention to theatrical entries in them in his ‘History of English Dramatic Poetry’ (see Bib# 584555/Fr# 922 in this collection). Collier’s personal part in the present edition is, aside from transcription, relatively minor: 29 pages of largely summary ‘Introduction’ and a sprinkling of illustrative footnotes and glosses. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 431-432; II, A59.</span></font><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039185619707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>