Carn Brea (or Carn Brê),. near Redruth, Cornwall.
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797 - 1875)
Category
Books
Date
1862
Materials
Place of origin
Truro
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3177977
Summary
Bibliographic description
27,[1]p,, plate. ill., map. 8vo.. Bound with this: (1) Cuttings of letters to The Times by Sir Gardner Wilkinson, on the massacres in Syria (1860); (2) Leaf of manuscript errata to the Carn Brea article (which has been corrected in ink); (3) Printed letter 'To the editor of the Cambrian Journal', signed 'Reged' (1862; 3p.), with manuscript notes identifying writer as Sir Gardner Wilkinson; (4) Other manuscript notes by Sir Gardner Wilkinson, including draft of letter to The Athenæum on 'Man & the gorilla'. Interleaved. Provenance: Gardner Wilkinson Library (no bookplate).:Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper sides. Title on green leather spine-labels, lettered sideways: Carn Brea Cornwall / Wilkinson 1860.
Makers and roles
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797 - 1875)