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William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844)
Category
Books
Date
1815
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 3160862
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 218 p., plates . 8vo. Provenance: Not indigenous. Meade Collection. Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Ink stamp: “Frankleigh House Library”. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Rev. The Honble Sidney Meade [1839-1917] signed ‘CWS’. - Inscribed in pencil: "Bought at the Hamilton Library Sale" (i.e. the 1883 Hamilton Palace sale, and perhaps therefore Beckford's own copy) Binding: Nineteenth-century cloth, printed paper spine-label; ticket of ‘Aubrey / Binder / Salisbury’
Makers and roles
William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844)