A bibliographical antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany. By the Rev. Tho. Frognall Dibdin, ...
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3024272
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 7710. Engraved illustration of the two sides of an ancient coin pasted onto vol. 1 front free endpaper. Provenance: nineteenth-century circular armorial bookplate (not in Franks) in each vol.: 'Will: Schom: Rob: Ker Marquis: of: Lothian' [i.e. William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian (1832-1870)]. Pencil number on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "871". Manuscript bookseller's codes on vol. 1 rear free endpaper: "LC/-/-" and "3 vols. ... [illegible]". Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; gilt thick thin fillet border; gilt roll pattern on corners of board edges; single gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt fillet and roll decoration on spines; title 'Dibdin's Bibliographical Tour', vol. number and place/date of imprint lettered in gilt on spines. Gilt bookblock edges. Orangey-yellow endpapers.
Makers and roles
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), author