Edward Coke 1676/8-1707

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Edward Coke 1676/8-1707

Biographical Note

Of Holkham Hall, Norfolk, husband of Cary Coke.

Books

Both Edward and Cary used an engraved armorial bookplate dated 1701. Many of their books remain at Holkam (including over 100 with Cary’s bookplate), though some books, including numerous bound volumes of plays, were bought by the Bodleian Library in the 1950s.

Sources

  • Blatchly.
  • Gambier Howe, R. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903. 6316-7.
  • Mortlock, D. P. The Holkham Library: a history and description, 2006
  • Rogers, D. The Holkham collection, Bodleian Library Record 4 (1953), 255-67.