Catalogue of the library at Rufford Hall. MDCCCLXXI.
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1871
Materials
Paper, leather and ink
Measurements
243 x 205 x 30 mm
Place of origin
Rufford
Collection
Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire
NT 3200000
Summary
Bibliographic description
[190] leaves; 25 cm. Anonymous quarto manuscript catalogue of the library at Rufford Hall, written in copperplate script in a ledger with alphabetical tabs along fore-edge. Incomplete. Organised alphabetically by author/title, giving details of format, date, and location by case and shelf. Each page is lined and with a margin. Provenance: one of several 19th century Hesketh books housed at Rufford Old Hall. Purchased at Sotheby's Easton Neston sale, 17th to 19th May 2005, catalogue number 396. Binding: nineteenth-century black roan sheepskin; double blind fillet border; title and date stamped in gilt on upper cover. Marbled edges.
Marks and inscriptions
CATALOGUE / OF THE / LIBRARY / AT / RUFFORD HALL / MDCCCLXXI (gold lettering on front cover)