The ruins of Balbec, . otherwise Heliopolis in Colosyria.
Robert Wood (1716/17 – London 1771)
Category
Books
Date
1757
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3049765
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],28p.,XLVI plates . fol... Not indigenous. Loosely inserted: clippings from dealer's catalogues, unrelated to provenance. Provenance: Nineteenth-century pictorial armorial bookplate: Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan Bart. [6th baronet (1797-1879)]. (Not in Franks). Twentieth-century armorial bookplate: John Lancaster, Bilton Grange, Rugby. (Franks 17507 or 17508) [i.e. John Lancaster (1815 or 1816-1884), M.P. for Wigan (1868-74), chairman of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company]. Pencil note on flyleaf: Đ2=10 Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf binding; marbled paper over boards; sewn on six raised bands.
Makers and roles
Robert Wood (1716/17 – London 1771) Giovanni Battista Borra (1713-1770) Pierre Fourdrinier (1698-1758)