Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times.. In three volumes. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Category
Books
Date
1773
Materials
Place of origin
Birmingham
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3077617
Summary
Bibliographic description
The fifth edition.. 3v.. ill... 8vo. Accession no. 6234. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Binding: eighteenth-century French red morocco, fillet border, gilt spine. Lettered directly 'Shaft'sburys/ Characters'. Floral tool on spine. Green and white headbands, green silk marker, edges gilt; wave-marbled endleaves. The general style and spelling of the author's name suggests that the book was bound in France, possibly by J.-D. Derome.
Makers and roles
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), author