The life and letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, . head-master of Shrewsbury School, 1798-1836, and afterwards Bishop of Lichfield ... by his grandson, Samuel Butler, ...
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Category
Books
Date
1896
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065521
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,plates . facsim..,ill..,port.. . 8vo.. MS. notes in vol. I (G.O. Trevelyan's hand) including dates of reading: February.1913 on flyleaf and end date Oct 8.1916 Wallington and 'October 24 1916 Wallington'. 'Tomorrow is Macaulay's birthday ... He would have enjoyed this book, and would have read it with the Cambridge University Calendar at his elbow, - or in his head ...' at end. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks. Bookseller's ticket: 'This book was supplied by Edward Baker, 14 & 16 John Bright Street, Birmingham, England ...'. Binding: Publisher's cloth; gilt lettered on spine.
Makers and roles
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)