British battles on land and sea.
James Grant (1822-1887)
Category
Books
Date
1873 - 1875
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3093559
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v. . ill.. . 26cm.. With manuscript annotations by G.O. Trevelyan e.g. p.534 of vol. I: 'A ludicrous map, palpably incorrect at every point. Malplaquet is the wrong side of the French line, and the attack on the French left flank in the wood is not represented at all, though the chief feature of the day'; p.575 next to 'the artifices and baseness of William III', GOT writes: 'Fool read thy Macaulay'.. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on free endpaper verso of vol. I: 'Robert C. Trevelyan with Aunt Maggie's [?] love Xmas 1884' [i.e. to Robert Calverley Trevelyan (1872-1951)]. 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: Publisher's blue embossed cloth, gilt decorated.
Makers and roles
James Grant (1822-1887)