Reliques of ancient English poetry : consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets, together with some few of later date.
Dr Thomas Percy (1729-1811) Bishop of Dromore
Category
Books
Date
1876
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3193495
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v. ; 8vo. Imperfect: wanting v. 2. Provenance: Repton School prize binding. Loosely inserted between front endpapers of v. 1: Prize bookplate inscribed to Godfrey Mosley [i.e. Col. Godfrey Mosley (1863-1945)], a.d. IX.Kal Jun [i.e. 24 May] MDCCCLXXXI [1881]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf, double gilt fillet forming a border, gilt armorial centre-piece. Five false raised bands, gilt tooling on spine. Brown leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and edges. Boards detached, spine damaged.
Makers and roles
Dr Thomas Percy (1729-1811) Bishop of Dromore Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917)