Memoirs of the most noble Richard Marquess Wellesley, K.P.; K.G.; D.C.L. Successively Governor-General and Captain-General of India; British ambassador in Spain; Secretary of State for foreign affairs; and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Comprising numerous letters and documents, now first published from original MSS. By Robert Rouiere Pearce, Esq. ... In three volumes. ...
Robert Rouiere Pearce
Category
Books
Date
1847
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3143498
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v., plates . ports.. . 8vo.. Provenance: Large pictorial bookplate with view of Tyntesfield with coat of arms and armour below; "En Dios Mi Amparo Esperanza" "Tenax Propositi" [i.e. family motto] "George Abraham Gibbs, of Tyntesfield" [i.e. George Abraham 1st Baron Wraxall (1873-1931)] and Ink stamp: "Col. The Right Honourable George A. Gibbs, M.P." [i.e. George Abraham 1st Baron Wraxall (1873-1931)] in all. - Pencil ms on end flyleaf in vol. I: "3.v. 9/- 235. 245. 249". - With pencil ms "3315" on colophon in all.. Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown leather; marbled boards and endpapers; gold-tooled spine; binders stamp in all: "Bound by Henderson & Bisset".
Makers and roles
Robert Rouiere Pearce Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760 - 1842)