The costume of the original inhabitants of the British islands.
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3113989
Summary
Bibliographic description
Not indigenous. Loosely inserted: clippings from dealer's catalogues, unrelated to provenance. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: Randle Lamb Mathews. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on flyleaf in Norris's hand: Lowe Bros. Bham. 7.10.63. Đ16.0.0.. Binding: Nineteenth-century full blue straight-grained morocco binding over boards; elaborate blind and gilt tools within double gilt fillet to form a border; gilt-rolled edges and inner border; elaborately gilt-tooled spine; gilt spine title; sewn on five raised bands; paper edges gilt.
Makers and roles
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848)