Leonora. . Translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W.R. Spencer, esq. With designs by the Right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc.
Gottfried August Bürger (1747-1794)
Category
Books
Date
1796
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3042832
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],35,[1]p, [5] plates . ill.. . fol.. Shelved and bound uniformly with Dryden's Fables (1797), 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: "Leonora"
Makers and roles
Gottfried August Bürger (1747-1794) Lady Diana Spencer, Lady Beauclerk (London 1734 – Twickenham 1808) W. R. Spencer