Times treasury, or, Academy for gentry : laying downe excellent grounds both divine and humane, in relation to sexes of both kindes, for their accomplishment in arguments of discourse, habit, fashion, and happy progresse in their spirituall conversation : revised, corrected, and inlarged, with A ladies love-lecture : and a supplement, entituled, The turtles triumph : summing up all in an exquisite Character of honour / by Richard Brathwait esq.

Inscripitions in an early hand on leaf C1v: "This is the book wich they call the english Gentleman. John Spink" and "Written by me John Spink" (the latter affected by cropping); early inscriptions on leaf O2v, including "Andrew white"; early inscripitions on leaf O3r, including "Jake"(?); early inscriptions on leaf 3N2v, including "John Spink" and "John"; early inscriptions on leaf 3N3r, including "John the R" (cropped) and "Patrick Spink decimo quarto die Septembris, anno Domini millesimo septingesimo [...]" (obscured by dirt); scribbles and other marginalia (including signatures markings) in an early hand in several locations throughout; large 17th-/18th-century engraved armorial bookplate on recto of second front fly-leaf: "Paul Jodrell of Duffield in ye county of Derby, esqr., Clerk of ye hon.ble House of Commons" (this is Paul Jodrell [1646-1728], who was Clerk of the House of Commons from 1683 to 1727); carbon copy of a typewritten item description by Frognal Rare Books/Frognal Bookshop Ltd. (London) found in item and now available in MSS 466, Box 5, Folder 121; modern bookseller's (?) inscription in pencil on recto of second free fly-leaf: "HMF/1086/SE Bind CG.10 [?]".

MSU: Lacking title leaf (print-out of a scan of the title page from the Harvard copy available in MSS 466, Box 5, Folder 121).

MSU: Engraved title page from "The English gentleman; and the English gentlevvoman" (London: Dawson, 1641; ESTC R10286) bound in at front (signed, "W. Marshall sculpsit").

MSU: Leaf [A]4(?) ("For the most vertuous and nobly-accomplisht ladie, the Right Honorable Elizabeth, (Dowager) Countess Strafford [...]") bound between leaves 2L4v and 2M1r.

In modern half calf with marbled paper over paste-boards; boards and spine tooled in blind; red leather spine label, tooled and lettered in gilt; edges speckled red.