Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage in the schooner yacht "Foam," 85 O.M. to Iceland, Jan Mayen, & Spitzbergen, in 1856.
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902)
Category
Books
Date
1857
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3206428
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvii,[3],428, 20 p., plates (some folding) ; 8vo. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial spade-shield bookplate, lettered "Erthig", "Mitchell Bond St.". Also inscribed on upper flyleaf: "Mrs Yorke" [prob. Victoria Mary Louisa Cust (1823-95), daughter of Sir Edward Cust and Mary Anne Boode, m. Simon Yorke III of Erddig in 1846]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full blue gilt embossed cloth, brown endpapers.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902) , author