Philip Stanhope 1584-1656
From Book Owners Online
Philip STANHOPE, 1st Earl of Chesterfield 1584-1656
Books
Gave 55 books to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, ca.1630.
Characteristic Markings
Books with his armorial stamp survive.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Jayne, S. Library catalogues of the English renaissance. Godalming, 1983, 156.
- Seddon, P. R. "Stanhope, Philip, first earl of Chesterfield (1583/4–1656), royalist nobleman." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.