Epitaph on a canary bird.
Sylvester Harding (Newcastle-under-Lyme 1745 - London 1809).
Category
Books
Date
1797
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 3036084
Summary
Bibliographic description
1 sheet ([1]p.) . 1/4o.. Sale catalogue entry describing this collection attached to front endpaper, price: Đ94, 10s. Bound with 14 other publications from the Strawberry-Hill Press.. Provenance: Bookplate (crest: bird on a tree stump): 'Edwd. Lockwood Percival'.. Binding: Eighteenth-century red straight-grained morocco binding; blind- and gold-tooled boards, with gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of the Marquis of Blandford [i.e. George Spencer Churchill (1766-1840), the future 6th Duke of Marlborough]. Gilt roll patterns on board edges and on turn-ins; blind- and gold-tooled spine, with title panel: 'Poems and miscellaneous pieces'. All edges gilt.
Makers and roles
Sylvester Harding (Newcastle-under-Lyme 1745 - London 1809).