Stratford-upon-Avon from "The Sketch Book" of Washington Irving. . With notes and original illustrations. Edited by Richard Savage and William Salt Brassington, F.S.A.
Washington Irving (1783-1859).
Category
Books
Date
1900
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3093661
Summary
Bibliographic description
144p. . ill..,port.. . 22cm.. No. 27 of a limited edition of 75 copies printed on Japanese vellum. Signed by Richard Savage, W. Salt Brassington and Edward Fox, members of the Shakespeare Club to whom the work is dedicated.. Provenance: "The Lady Trevelyan, Welcombe, Stratford-upon-Avon (2 copies)" is among the list of subscribers [i.e. Caroline Trevelyan (1849-1928)]. 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: Vellum on boards; spine title, printed in red: Irving's Stratford-upon-Avon.
Makers and roles
Washington Irving (1783-1859). William Salt Brassington (1859-1939) Richard Savage (1847-1924)