History of the conquest of Mexico, . with a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican civilisation, and the life of the conqueror, Hernando Cortés. By William H. Prescott, ... Fifth edition. In three volumes.
William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1850
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
187 x 127 mm; 39 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3019055.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.3. . 8vo. With thumbprints (Macaulay's?).. Provenance: 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: Publisher's red embossed cloth.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859)