Origines Divisianae. . Or the antiquities of the Devizes: in some familiar letters to a friend, wrote in the years 1750, and 1751.
James Davis (1705/6 - 1755)
Category
Books
Date
1754
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 3136669
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 90 p. ; . 8vo (in 4s). Provenance: Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper: 'By Dr Davies, / This is a very rare / Book; It was reprinted / in the Reprints of / ?? / & a copy of the Reprint / is also in the Rousham / Library / JB.Nichols / July 1839'. - Blue stamp of 'The / Stonehenge Bureau / Antiques and Curios'. - Entered in John Bowyer Nichols, Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, (London, 1840), p.427. Binding: Eighteenth-century polished calf, gold-ruled frame, gold framed spine-title. Spine chipped.
Makers and roles
James Davis (1705/6 - 1755) Sneyd Davies (1709 - 1769)