Lord Macaulay's essays and Lays of ancient Rome.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1902
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3087531
Summary
Bibliographic description
Popular edition ; New impression. [4],923,[1]p.. 8vo. (19cm). Earlier shelfmark rubbed out. Provenance: Twentieth-century crest bookplate, lettered "Cecil E. Byas". Inscribed on flyleaf "Castleregh from his grandmother, Christmas 1918" [given to Edward 'Robin' Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1902-1956), Viscount Castlereagh and 8th Marquess of Londonderry from 1949, from ?Theresa Susey Helen Chetwynd-Talbot (1856-1919) m. in 1875 Charles 6th Marquess of Londonderry]. Twentieth-century monogram bookplate of a double L below a marquess's coronet inside arabesque cartouche, and dated 1915 [i.e. Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915 (1878-1949)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red calf, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt edges. Gilt stamped on turn-in "Bumpus Ltd. Binders, Oxford St."
Makers and roles
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859)