Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman Conquest; . with anecdotes of their courts, now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public. ... By Agnes Strickland ...
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874)
Category
Books
Date
1844 - 1848
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3143734
Summary
Bibliographic description
12v., frontis. ports., plates . ill.., ports.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection. Incomplete: Vols. I-II only of this edition, bound uniform with vol.III of the second edition, and vols. IV-XII of the first edition. Peckover vols. I-II are dated 1842.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Both volumes have the nineteenth century armorial bookplate, signed "CWS", lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade", and the ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library". Vol.I also has an earlier nineteenth-century armorial engraved bookplate, lettered: "Sidney Meade".. Binding: Nineteenth century half calf; five false raised bands; watered cloth over boards; all edges marbled; binder's ticket: Aubrey Binder Salisbury.
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
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874) Elizabeth Strickland (1794-1875)