The fables . of John Dryden, ornamented with engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc.
John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Category
Books
Date
1797
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3040753
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],xviii,241,[1]p.,[9] plates . ill.. . fol.. Shelved and bound uniformly with Burger's Leonore (1796), also illustrated by Lady Beauclerc. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed Strongitharm sc. Pall Mall: 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7703; Lee's London Bookplates (1985) 193) [Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century straight grain blue morocco; gold-tooled fillets; spine gilt decorated and spine lettered: "Dryden's fables"
Makers and roles
John Dryden (1631 - 1700) Lady Diana Spencer, Lady Beauclerk (London 1734 – Twickenham 1808)