Lives of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest; . with anecdotes of their courts, now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public. By Agnes Strickland.
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874)
Category
Books
Date
1840 - 1848
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3054305
Summary
Bibliographic description
12v., plates . ill.., ports.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection. Incomplete: Vols. IV-XII only of this edition, bound uniform with Vols. I-II of the new edition and vol.III of the second edition.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. All volumes have nineteenth century armorial bookplate, signed "CWS", lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade", and the ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Nineteenth century half calf; five false raised bands; watered cloth over boards; all edges marbled; binder's ticket: Aubrey Binder Salisbury.
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
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874)