MADAM – I thought you would be pleased to hear that a lost family possession from the 17th century has been returned to me after one of your readers noticed my obscure family name in a recent Dealers’ Diary (ATG No 2276).
The book is a collection of judgments by an Elizabethan judge and was published in 1601. The title page is inscribed Pe. Hendra with a further inscription Peter Hendra at the bottom beside the date 1636.
The book was owned by a Welsh family for over a hundred years and had recently been sold to an antiquarian book dealer.