The yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland
John Lowe
Category
Books
Date
1897
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3011112
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv,270p. . ill.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection. Slip with manuscript annotation laid loose inside.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Nineteenth century armorial bookplate, signed "CWS", lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade" [1839-1917]. Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Nineteenth-century half leather [morocco?], single gilt fillet at leather edges; grained leather over boards; five false raised bands; spine gilt tooled and lettered direct; page edges gilt at head; marbled endpapers; binder's ticket: Aubrey Binder Salisbury. Spine damaged, part missing, sewing intact.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly from the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
John Lowe