Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. : during the years 1812 and 1813. / By Henry Holland, ...
Sir Henry Holland, 1st Bt (1788-1873)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100822
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 8vo. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso in v. 1: "2 vols 8/- net". Pencil codes on rear pastedown in v. 1: "d" and "l/x". Pencil note at foot of p. vii in v. 1: "Ali Pasha afterwards revolted & after an obstinate defence was killed". Provenance: Nineteenth-century prize bookplate of Trinity College Dublin in both vols., awarded to "Thomo Henrico Purdon" [i.e. Thomas Henry Purdon], 1820. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924] in both vols.: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil inscription at head of title page in v. 2: "Thomas Henry [Purdon Belfast … ]". Binding: Nineteenth-century full marbled calf; gilt roll to form an outer border on boards; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Trinity College Dublin on boards; gilt tooled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Holland's travels'; green textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Sir Henry Holland, 1st Bt (1788-1873), author