The United States of America ; their history from the earliest period ; their industry, commerce, banking transactions, and national works ; their institutions and character, political, social, and literary ; with a survey of the territory, and remarks on the prospects and plans of emigrants. By Hugh Murray, ... with illustrations of the natural history, by James Nicol. Portraits and other engravings by Jackson. In three volumes. ...
Hugh Murray (1779-1846)
Category
Books
Date
1844
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3074845
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v. : ill., ports. ; 17cm (8vo). Bookseller’s ticket on pastedown: Bought of Willis and Sotheran, booksellers & bookbinders, 42, Charing Cross. Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1825-1892)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half grained, green calf, with marbled paper on boards; gold tooled spine, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Hugh Murray (1779-1846)