Lays of ancient Rome . with Ivry and the Armada.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1877
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3070140
Summary
Bibliographic description
167, [1] p. . 8vo.. Old NT shelfmark: D.1.23(F). Provenance: MS. on flyleaf in two hands: (1) C.J. Thomson from his fagmaster F.S.W. Cornwallis - Eton College 1879; (2) Created Baron Cornwallis in 1927 I am Godfather to his son Oswald & his grandson Strang Steel - a long friendship - February 1946. Courtauld Thomson. Armorial bookplate signed H.J.F. Badeley 1945: Courtauld-Thomson Dorneywood [with motto: Fortiter aut suaviter. i.e. Lord Courtauld-Thomson (1865-1954)]. Black ink stamp on flyleaf: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: Nineteenth-century dark blue polished calf over boards (rebacked with cloth hinges), gilt tooling on spine and board edges, double gilt fillet with floral cornerpieces and dotted roll inside on covers, blind roll on board inners, gilt edges, red spine label. Spine label: Macaulay's Lays.
Makers and roles
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) Longman