The fifteen decisive battles of the world:. from Marathon to Waterloo. By Sir Edward Creasy, M.A. ...
Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812-1878)
Category
Books
Date
1894
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire
NT 3103929
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii, [1], 407, [1]p. ; 8vo. Acquired at auction on 15 June 2021. Thought to have been sold from Baddesley Clinton in the John Margetts and Sons auction of 12-14 March 1940. Provenance: nineteenth-century prize bookplate on upper paste-down: “St. Augustine's Benedictine College, Ramsgate. Exhibition Day, 1895. Prize for singing awarded to Edward Ferrers" [i.e. Edward Ferrers (1881-1934)]. Binding: tree calf with gilt armorial of St. Augustine's College on upper board; gilt frames on boards; marbled endpapers and edges; spine: gilt-tooled; black morocco title label with gilt lettering.
Makers and roles
Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812-1878)