The life of Wesley; and the rise and progress of Methodism.
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Category
Books
Date
1820
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3207161
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates :. ports. ;. 8vo. Booksellers' notes: C.P. W.W. W-7132, and C.P. 14.7.88 E. B.; bookseller's catalogue clipping on front pastedown for this copy, item 700; various marginal pencil tick marks. Provenance: [William Beckford, (1760-1844)] with 7 pages of his pencilled notes; nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of John William Pease (1836–1901), v. I inscribed in pencil: Duke of Hamilton's Library; vol. II inscribed No. 2127 Hamilton Palace Sale; pencil inscription in vol. I: R. W. Ketton-Cremer Felbrigg 1951 [Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]." Bought from Lowe of Birmingham. Some of Beckford's notes are amazing ...". Binding: "Fonthill" binding of half blue morocco over blue paper boards signed: Bound by C. Smith; leather framed with gilt fillet, gilt spine, five raised bands sewn on three cords, titled: Southey's Life of Wesley. All edges gilt.
Makers and roles
Robert Southey (1774-1843), author