Letter-books of John Hervey, first Earl of Bristol. . With Sir Thomas Hervey's letters during courtship & poems during widowhood. 1651-1750. In three volumes. ... With five portraits.
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)
Category
Books
Date
1894
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 3027779
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v. plates . ill.. . 22 cm.. Provenance: Inscribed in ink on front pastedown: 'Alda Hoare / Stourhead / Wilts / Sept. 1900 / (From her cousin, by marriage, / Katherine Hoare; wife of Charles Hoare - & / grand-daughter of the 5th Earl, & 1st Marquess of / Bristol / 'Sourbair")'. - Entered in 1906 typescript Stourhead Library catalogue: p. 267, P.5. Binding: Publisher's green cloth. - Attached to front free-endpaper: Cuting from Sunday Times, September 1931: a review by Desmond MacCarthy of Sedgwick's edition of Hervey's 'Memoirs'.
Makers and roles
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751) Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey (1846-1946) Sir Thomas Hervey (1625 - 1694)