Formerly owned by Algernon Graves with his armorial bookplate. From Reginald Grundy to Rimell to W.S. Lewis, August 1939, with the book label with crest and motto of the Grundy family annotated with the no. "2606.C".
Formerly owned by Horace Walpole. Sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale, vii.149, to Smith, Lisle Street [London, 1160]; bound in four volumes by Riviere in half green morocco ca. 1850, apparently for John Sheepshanks whose bookplate is in the volumes. Sold at Sotheby's, 2 March 1891 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 826, to Harvey. Volumes 1-2, 4 were purchased by W.S. Lewis in 1925; the third volume in 1928.