Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M---y W----y M-----e: written, during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters, &c. in different parts of Europe. Which contain, among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks; ...
Lady Mary Pierrepont, Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu (1689-1762)
Category
Books
Date
1769
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3030929.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2. ; 8vo. Bookseller's price notes in pencil: £140. Inscribed on pastedown: "The originals of the letters were found in the false bottom of an old trunk." Rear endpaper pencil ms. page references. Provenance: not indigenous. Inscribed: Beverley A. Battersby. Part of Battersby Bequest, 2008. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; five raised bands; gilt tooled spines; gilt lettered and numbered red and black spine labels.
Makers and roles
Lady Mary Pierrepont, Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu (1689-1762), author