Life of Cardinal Manning Archbishop of Westminster
Edmund Sheridan Purcell (1824-1899)
Category
Books
Date
1896
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3093751
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,plates . ports.. . 8vo. With many marginal marks and MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928). Dates of reading: Nov 1918-Jan 24 at Welcombe. GOT ends: 'Have now read every word on the 1500 pages of this extrordinary book, and do not regard the time as wasted. Whatever the merits, or demerits, of Purcell as a biographer his readers know Manning as we know Dr Johnson, or Sir Walter Scott; and Manning, with all his qualities and defects, was well worth knowing ...' With an erratum slip in vol.I following p. [xx].. Provenance: Multiple owners: armorial bookplate, lettered: Honore et amore with manuscript under: Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie [novelist and dramatist who wrote under the pseudonym John Oliver Hobbes (1867-1906)]. Over this a leaf of paper is pasted in with the manuscript ' "John Oliver Hobbs'" [sic] copy'. On free endpaper verso of vol. I: Ernest A Smith. 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 red cloth.
Makers and roles
Edmund Sheridan Purcell (1824-1899)