A history of Greece; . from the earliest period to the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander the Great. By George Grote, ... A new edition. In eight volumes ... With portrait, maps, and plans.
George Grote (1794-1871)
Category
Books
Date
1862
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3045386
Summary
Bibliographic description
8v., plates . port.., maps . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection. Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.. Provenance: Nineteenth century armorial bookplate, signed "CWS", lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade", and ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf; single gilt fillet to form a border; board edges gilt rolled, turn-ins blind rolled; five false raised bands; spine gilt tooled; red and black spine labels, gilt lettered; marbled endpapers, page edges marbled to match; spine blackened (soot?).
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
George Grote (1794-1871)