The history and antiquities of Hemington : in the parish of Lockington, in the county of Leicester /
John Joseph Briggs (1816-1876)
Category
Books
Date
1873
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3155258
Summary
Bibliographic description
16 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), coats of arms, facsim. ; 32 cm. Manuscript letter attached to first free endpaper, headed: King’s Newton, May 30th 1873; signed: John Joseph Briggs; sending “the accompaning volume”. Entry on the “Harpur family” corrected in ink, and supplemented by a sheet of manuscript notes attached to verso of preceding plate leaf. Provenance: inscribed: “From the author / June 2nd 1873.” Nineteenth-century large armorial bookplate: Calke Abbey library [associated with Sir George Crewe and his son, Sir John Harpur Crewe]. Binding: nineteenth-century red morocco; gilt and blind tooled; gilt lettered. Decorated endpapers. Upper board loose.
Makers and roles
John Joseph Briggs (1816-1876)