Modern history: or, the present state of all nations. Describing respective situations, persons, habits, buildings, manners, laws and customs, religion and policy, arts and sciences, trades, manufactures and husbandry, plants, animals and minerals.
Thomas Salmon (1679-1767)
Category
Books
Date
1726 - 1731
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3177110
Summary
Bibliographic description
18 v.. 8vo. Vols. VIII and XIII only. Vol. VIII inscribed on p. [1]: "Allen" with "July 1733" written over. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: "Sr. Henry Harpur Bart." [i.e. Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet, (1708-1748)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf [or sheep] with plain, blind panel stamp with floral corner pieces. Sewn on three cords, four raised bands. Blind gauffered edges, gilt tooling on spine [much faded], spine labels missing. Edges dyed red. Upper pastedown of vol. XIII loose, showing binding structure. Upper board of vol. VIII beginning to detach.
Makers and roles
Thomas Salmon (1679-1767), author