The story of English literature
Anna Jane Buckland (b.1827)
Category
Books
Date
1900
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3160553
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [1], 519, [1] p. ; 8vo. Former shelfmark: Q.2.18. 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 "C" [in MS.] Shelf "5" [i.e. a Lyme Park book]. Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "R. W. Legh. Prize for industry. Class 1B(2). Wixenford. Decr. 16th 1901. EA" [i.e. a prize book from Wixenford School, Berkshire, for Richard William Davenport Legh, 3rd Lord Newton (1888-1960)]. Binding: twentieth-century tree calf; gilt floral roll pattern border; gilt stamp of Wixenford School; gold-tooled spine, with blue morocco title label. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Anna Jane Buckland (b.1827)