Mss. catalogue alphabetically arranged of the library of William Egerton, Esq. of Tatton Park, in the county Palatine of Chester. 1793.
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1813 - circa 1900
Materials
Place of origin
Knutsford
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 3008258
Summary
Bibliographic description
403 leaves ;. fol. A slip catalogue, with additions in manuscript (ink or pencil) up to at least 1891. Letterpress title page, but otherwise in manuscript throughout. Mostly written on numbered rectos with some additions on unnumbered versos. With notes on front free endpaper recording locations, including abbreviations denoting books given to Owens College (now University of Manchester), Church House Westminster and Ordsall Hall, Salford. First leaf 'Alphabetical reference' has note 'This catalogue was copied from one written in 1793'. At the time of this copy, the library was owned by Wilbraham Egerton Loosely inserted inside upper board, 5 leaves of notepaper entitled 'List of books presented to the Church House by Lord Egerton of Tatton' and 1 leaf listing 8 books entitled 'Removed into small Library. to be placed on shelves'. Provenance: Nineteenth-century anonymous armorial bookplate: Tatton Park [i.e.: Wilbraham Egerton (1781-1856)] (not in Franks or Viner). Binding: nineteenth-century full calf, blind tooled; marbled endpapers; spine gilt-lettered 'Alphabetical Catalogue. 1813'