The pictorial history of England : being a history of the people, as well as a history of the kingdom. Illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts; and one hundred and four illustrative portraits, engraved on steel. /
George Lillie Craik (1798-1866)
Category
Books
Date
1847
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3183659
Summary
Bibliographic description
8 v., : ill. ; 26 cm. Bookseller’s endpaper ink stamp, v.1: Bought of G. Willis, 42, Charing Cross. Provenance; v. 2 only beas upper cover gold stamp spear crest, with earl’s coronet [i.e. Thomas William Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson, created Earl of Lichfield, 1831 (1795-1854)]. Binding: nineteenth-century calf; triple gold fillet border; gold tooled and lettered spine; gold tooled board edges and turn-ins; marbled edges and endpapers. Gold crest and coronet stamp on v. 2.
Makers and roles
George Lillie Craik (1798-1866) Charles MacFarlane (1799-1858)