Parliament past and present . a popular and picturesque account of a thousand years in the Palace of Westminster, the home of the mother of parliaments by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith.
Arnold Wright (1858 - 1941)
Category
Books
Date
1902
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3037777
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v, plates . ill.. . 4to.. Not indigenous. Meade collection.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. manuscript inscription in each volume: "Robert S. Meade 1964" (Robert Sidney Stuart Meade, 1901-1971). Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate, motto "Gwna a ddylit doed a ddel", in each volume, lettered: "Sir William Thomas Lewis, Bart, K.B.". Binding: Twentieth-century half red calf[?], red morocco over boards; five false raised bands; spine gilt rolled, part lettered direct; brown spine label, gilt lettered; spines and corners rubbed and damaged, but intact.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly from the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
Arnold Wright (1858 - 1941) Philip Smith