Athenian letters: . or, the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war. A new edition; to which is prefixed a geographical index. In two volumes. Illustrated with engravings, and a map of antient Greece. ...
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720 - 1790)
Category
Books
Date
1798
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3007193
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,(lxii,[2],436;xv,[1],466p.) [15] plates (some folded) . map,port.. . 4to.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: Rr/2 [pencil]; 55/2 [pencil]; C.3.4-5 [ink]. Frontis. port. of Philip, Earl of Hardwick in v.1 annotated by hand to read "2nd" [Earl].. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754. Also used in books acquired by his successors].. Binding: Eighteenth-century diced calf; gold tooled; marbled endpapers and edges; title gold-lettered direct onto spine.
Makers and roles
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720 - 1790)