The receipt book of Elizabeth Raper and a portion of her cipher journal. Edited by her great-grandson the late Bartle Grant, with a portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant; written 1756-1770 and never before printed.
Elizabeth Raper Grant (d.1778)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3056650
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 94, [2] p : ill., port. ; 24 cm. Number 544 of 850 Provenance: Inscribed on pastedown "ELondonderry Sept 1924" [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Leaves untrimmed.
Makers and roles
Elizabeth Raper Grant (d.1778) Bartle Grant (1856-1924)