Frankleigh House. Visitors’ book. 1883-1917
Frankleigh House, Bradford-on-Avon
Category
Books
Date
1883 - 1917
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 3163877
Summary
Bibliographic description
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. CWS. – Entries down to December 24-26 1917’ Binding: Red cloth, gold-framed, gold-lettered, gold-decorated spine. Upper board detached. – Some inserts and markers (blotter); torn page of ‘Country Life’, Oct. 5th, 1929 illustrated house advert: ‘Wiltshire-Somerset borders … This magnificent stone-built residence occupying a picked position’. – Ticket of ‘Aubrey / Binder / Salisbury’
Makers and roles
Frankleigh House, Bradford-on-Avon Sidney Meade (1839-1917)