The correspondence of William Wilberforce. . Edited by his sons, Robert Isaac Wilberforce, M.A. ... and Samuel Wilberforce, M.A. ... In two volumes.
William Wilberforce, MP (1759 - 1833)
Category
Books
Date
1840
Materials
Measurements
195 x 130 x 39 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065636.2
Summary
Full description
Orientation: VerticalText Substrate: Machine-made wove paperInk/Pigment: black printing inkType: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports & hollow Date of Binding: contemporaryBinder's Name: EmglishEnd Leaves: Tipped single fold of white wove paper, the outer leaf pasted to the boardStructure: English. Ticket of John Merrydew , Ornamental Stationer, Warwick and Leamington Edges: Plain cut, sprinkled with faint brown pigment, polished Spine Lining: near flat, artificial hollow back made with printed waste. End Bands: Stuck-on, green textile folded over core.Bookmark: NoneBoards: 2mm rope fibre, slips 1, 3 and 5 laced in, perpendicular Covering: Half, dark-brown, tanned calf and ‘spanish’ pattern veined marbled paper Tooling Spine: 8 gold-tooled horizpntal double fillets with black leather lettering piece in panel 2, arabic volume number in panel 6. Tooling Sides: blind-tooled double fillet along edges of leatherFurniture: NoneEnclosure: NoneBinding Notes: Bookplate of Charles and Mary Trevelyan
Bibliographic description
v.2. . 8vo.. MS. notes. Thumbprints (Macaulay's?). 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.. Binding: Half leather; marbled boards; black spine labels gilt lettered; bound uniformly with Life of Wilberforce.
Makers and roles
William Wilberforce, MP (1759 - 1833) Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802 - 1857) Samuel Wilberforce (1805 - 1873), Bishop of Winchester