Letters on the improvement of the mind, . addressed to a young lady. In two volumes.
Mrs Hester Chapone (1727-1801)
Category
Books
Date
1773
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3037802
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Nineteenth century armorial bookplate, signed "CWS", lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade" [1839-1917]. Eighteenth-century[?] armorial bookplate, lettered: "Ph. Goldsworthy". Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf; sewn over five raised bands; traces of lettering from a spine labels, now missing from both volumes; numerals '1' and '2' gilt lettered direct; front covers loose/detached, remains of failed sellotape repair on vol. 2.
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
Mrs Hester Chapone (1727-1801)