The Year book of daily recreation and information, . concerning remarkable men and manners, times and seasons, solemnities and merry-makings, antiquities and novelties: on the plan of the every-day book and table book, or everlasting calendar of popular amusements, sports, pastimes, ceremonies, customs, and events, incident to each of the three hundred and sixty-five days in past and present times; forming a complete history of the year; and a perpetual key to the almanac by William Hone... With one hundred and fourteen engravings.
William Hone (1780-1842)
Category
Books
Date
1832
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3139871
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4]p; 1644 [ie 822], [2]p., [1] leaf of plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Nineteenth century armorial bookplate, signed "CWS", lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade". Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Nineteenth century half calf; marbled paper over boards; marbled endpapers; edges marbled to match endpapers and covers; blind rolled on covers, gilt on spine; black lettering piece, gilt lettered; binder's ticket "Aubrey Binder Salisbury" on back pastedown.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly in the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
William Hone (1780-1842)