Dialogues of the dead.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773)
Category
Books
Date
1760
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3215580
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition: xii,[2],320 p. ; 8vo. Imperfect: wants unnumbered [blank?] leaf following contents. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]. Binding: eighteenth-century marbled calf; five raised bands; double gilt fillets on spine; red spine label; gilt roll on board edges, text block edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773), author Elizabeth Robinson, Mrs Edward Montagu (1720-1800), author