Greece: pictorial, descriptive, and historical.
Christopher Wordsworth, (1807 - 1885), Bishop of Lincoln
Category
Books
Date
1859
Materials
leather, paper
Measurements
250 x 173 mm; 48 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087750
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv,452p.,plates . ill..,maps . 25cm.. Ms. note on flyleaf: 'A Harrow prize' presumably to Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928). Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Full leather binding; gilt Harrow armorial as centrepieces on boards and at head and foot of spine; gilt lettered direct onto spine: Wordworth's Greece'; marbled endpapers and edges.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Christopher Wordsworth, (1807 - 1885), Bishop of Lincoln Sir George Scharf (London 1820 - London 1895)