Northern antiquities: . or A description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, including those of our own Saxon ancestors. With a translation of the Edda, ... Translated from L'Introduction a l'histoire de Dannemarc, &c. par Mons. Mallet. With additional notes by the English translator, and Goranson's Latin version of the Edda. In two volumes.
Paul Henri Mallet (1730-1807)
Category
Books
Date
1809
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3018331
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. . 8vo. 2 vols. bound as one. Old pressmark: C.2.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on free endpaper: 'W.C. Trevelyan Univ. Coll. Oxon 1817', i.e.Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan Bart. [i.e. Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879)]. Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Full polished calf; gilt rolled to form border; gilt tooled on spine; title label.
Makers and roles
Paul Henri Mallet (1730-1807) Dr Thomas Percy (1729-1811) Bishop of Dromore