A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; now Lord Anson, ... Compiled from his papers and materials,. by Richard Walter, ... Illustrated with forty-two copper-plates.
Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson(1697 - 1762)
Category
Books
Date
1749
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217105
Summary
Bibliographic description
The fifth edition. [20],417,[1]p., xlii plates (some fold.) : ill., maps ; 4to. Old Lyme park shelfmark label: Case G. Shelf 5. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate: Ex-libris A. Florenz. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gilt fillt border. Rebacked, twentieth-century, five raised bands, gilt tooled.
Makers and roles
Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson(1697 - 1762), author Richard Walter (1717 - 1785), editor