A history of the earth, and animated nature.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
Category
Books
Date
1805
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3160525
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v. : ill. ; 8vo. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Printed shelfmark label beneath bookplate: Case "Q" [in MS.] Shelf "2" [i.e. a Lyme Park book]. Binding: nineteenth-century marbled calf; gilt roll pattern border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; recessed cords; gold-tooled spines, with green title and vol. no. labels, and with nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamp [i.e. a Legh family book]. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) W. Turton (1762-1835) William Harry Turton (1762-1835)