Mss. catalogue alphabetically arranged and classed of the library of William Egerton, Esq. of Tatton Park, in the county Palatine of Chester. 1793.
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1793 - c. 1813
Materials
Place of origin
Knutsford
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 3008259
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. ;. fol. Letterpress title page in v.1-3, but otherwise in manuscript throughout. Within classification, books arranged by format. Some additions to at least 1811, when the library was owned by Wilbraham Egerton. Contents added in pencil at head of each letterpress title page: v.1: English books. -- v.2. Italian and French. -- v.3. Greek and Latin. --- v.[4] Alphabetical . Provenance: Nineteenth-century anonymous armorial bookplate: Tatton Park [i.e.: Wilbraham Egerton (1781-1856)] (not in Franks or Viner). Binding: eighteenth-century full diced calf, blind tooled; marbled endpapers; rebacked, probably in nineteenth century; spine gilt-lettered 'Catalogue Classed. Vol. I-III' and '[Al]phabet[ical] [Ca]talo[gue]'