W2/X-6-20

Shelfmark W2/X-6-20

Galen. Librorum pars prima. Venice: 1525.

Armorial binding stamp on both boards of Sir Thomas Parry (1544–1616), Elizabethan M.P. and diplomat.

The arms are 'Quarterly of six 1 & 6. A chevron between three boys heads couped at the shoulders with snakes wound round their necks (Parry) 2. A chevron between three spearheads embrued (Gamme [Watkyn or Game]) 3. Three cocks (Gamme) 4. A lion rampant crowned (Gamme [Game or Watkyn]) 5. A bull's head couped between three mullets (Havard)'.

http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamps/PAR009_s1

Listed in the 1743 printed catalogue, p. 45.