The connoisseur.
Mr Town
Category
Books
Date
1761
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140301
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v. . 12mo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Vol. 1 has nineteenth century armorial bookplate, signed "CWS", lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade". Vols. 2-4 have nineteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: "Ph. Goldsworthy". All volumes have the ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Eighteenth-century[?] full sprinkled calf; five raised bands; board edges gilt rolled; spines gilt tooled; spine labels missing; marbled endpapers.
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
Mr Town