Lays of ancient Rome.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1847
Materials
leather and paper
Measurements
220 x 179 mm; 35 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3039878
Summary
Bibliographic description
210p . ill. . 4to. With two rondels pasted onto stiff papers and bound in at beginning and end: one lettered 'Lays of ancient Rome by T.B. Macaulay with an illustration of Romulus and Remus'; the other lettered 'Roma'. Provenance: Bookseller's ticket on pastedown: Mawson, Swan & Morgan, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. manuscript inscription on flyleaf: 'GO Trevelyan This is not half a bad book.'. Binding: Half morocco; marbled boards; gilt tooled and lettered on spine; gilt tops.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) Sir George Scharf (London 1820 - London 1895)