Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or A descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer, K.G. &c. &c. &c. By the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin. ...
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847)
Category
Books
Date
1814 - 1815
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3142604
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. : ill., coat of arms, facsims. ; 28 cm. (4to.) Running number: 7804. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page of vols. 1-3: "Blickling CHS" [i.e. Lady Caroline Suffield (Caroline Hans Harbord) (1767-1850), daughter of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire; she married in 1792 William Assheton Harbord, who became 2nd Baron Suffield in 1810]. Binding: nineteenth-century half-bound gold-tooled green goatskin with marbled paper (rubbed) over boards; gilt title, author and vol. number on spines; head of textblock gilt, other sides untrimmed and plain.
Makers and roles
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), author George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), owner