Histoire du duc de Wellington
Alexis Henry Brialmont (1821-1903)
Category
Books
Date
1856 - 1857
Materials
Place of origin
Belgium
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140363
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v., plates, some folded . ill.., maps, ports.. . 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" [1839-1917]. Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library". Tom. I has ms inscription: "Sidney Meade from Papa. 1858". Tom.III has cropped inscription: "Sidney Meade from Papa".. Binding: Nineteenth-century full sheep[?]; double gilt fillets, blind roll and small corner gilt tools to form a border; board edges gilt rolled, turn-ins blind rolled; five false raised bands; spines gilt tooled; black spine labesl gilt tooled and lettered; endpapers and page edges marbled to match.
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
Alexis Henry Brialmont (1821-1903)