With the (trimmed) bookplate of William Byrd, of Westover, Virginia. A handsome, elaborate armorial bookplate engraved circa 1725, but probably not in America. Colonel William Byrd (1674-1744) “was a very distinguished Virginian: was born to an ample fortune, liberally educated, and became the patron of science and literature in his native state” - Allen. Byrd also had one of the largest libraries in colonial Virginia. Allen, American Bookplates, 123.