The history of modern Europe: with an account of the decline and fall of the Roman empire; and a view of the progress of society, from the rise of the modern kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763; in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son.
William Russell (1741-1793).
Category
Books
Date
1837
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3074503
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition, ... 4v. ; 23cm (8vo). Imperfect: vol. 1 only. Provenance: endpaper inscribed "Lady Harriet began 2nd. Jany. 1843. finished 23 November 1843" [i.e. Lady Harriet Anson, née Hamilton (1834-1913]; upper cover stamped with Lichfield cypher and earl's coronet in gold [i.e. Thomas William Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson, created Earl of Lichfield, 1831 (1795-1854)]. Binding: nineteenth-century diced calf; gilt fillet border and stamped centrepiece; gilt tooled spine; missing spine label.
Makers and roles
William Russell (1741-1793).