Visits to remarkable places: old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry.
William Howitt (1792-1879)
Category
Books
Date
1840
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3150005
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii,[1],526,[2]p. . ill.. . 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, unsigned, lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade". Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library". manuscript inscriptions on title page: "Mary Swinburn" and "Millicent Curzon 1870". Binding: Nineteenth-century half grained leather; straight grained leather over boards; spine gilt lettered direct as 'Vol. I'; 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
William Howitt (1792-1879)