Ædes Hartwellianæ, . or, notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell. By Captain W. H. Smyth ...
William Henry Smyth (1788-1865)
Category
Books
Date
1851
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3113941
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii, [1], 414, [2]p., XIII plates (some col.) . ill.., maps, plans . 4to.. With additional folded lithograph bound in, annotated in manuscript 'Sir Gardner Wilkinson Hieratic manuscript in the Harwell [sic] Museum Buckinghamshire J. Bonomi lith'. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)] & inscription 'Presented to Sir Gardiner [sic] Wilkinson ... with the respects of Captain Smyth, & Dr and Mrs Lee members of the [?] Egyptian Society Hartwell 20. December 1851' and with nineteenth-century armorial bookplates of 'Captain William Henry SmythÆ [1788-1865] and John Lee of Hartwell [1783-1866](anon. armorial bookplate, motto æVerum atque decens', signed 'Mutlow sc. York StÆ). Binding: Nineteenth-century full publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, spine gilt-tooled & lettered 'Aedes Hartwellianae'; as issued. Binder's ticket 'Bound by Remnant & Edmonds. London'.
Makers and roles
William Henry Smyth (1788-1865) John Lee (1783-1866)