The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Washington Irving (1783-1859).
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3070135.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1 ; 8vo. Prices and codes on front free endpaper: 'D' '(H1)' '(M1)' '2 vols 6/'. Former shelfmark[?] '813(A1)' 'A.1' '823.7' on front pastedown and endpapers. Provenance: Pictorial bookplate on front pastedowns: 'Ex libris Robert Temperley' [probably Robert Temperley (d.1950), MA Queens' College Cambridge, barrister, of the Inner Temple]. Purple ink stamp on front free endpaper 'Wright bookseller [8?] Boscombe Arcade' [Bournemouth?]. Binding: nineteenth-century full calf, blind-stamped borders; brown endpapers; all edges sprinkled red; gilt-lettered on red spine labels 'Sketch Book' 'Vol. I'
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed contents of the house to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.
Makers and roles
Washington Irving (1783-1859).