The last dying declaration of the 4th Earl of Derwentwater 8th December 1946.
Charles Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Derwentwater (de jure) (1693-1746)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1746
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101715
Summary
Bibliographic description
[7] leaves, bound : ill. ; fol. Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing the holograph declaration (without the other items); (2) plan of the Tower of London printed for The London & Middlesex Archaeological Society Meeting, 1892. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco, triple gilt fillet on boards to form an outer border; upper board lettered direct (gilt-tooled): 'The last dying declaration of the 4th Earl of Derwentwater 8th December 1946'; double gilt fillet on board edges; elaborate gilt-rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt-stamp on turn-in: 'Robson & Co. 7 Hanover St. W.1'.
Makers and roles
Charles Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Derwentwater (de jure) (1693-1746), author