A narrative of Lord Byron's last journey to Greece : extracted from the journal of Count Peter Gamba, who attended His Lordship on that expedition.
Count Peter Gamba (1801-1827)
Category
Books
Date
1825
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217168
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 307, [1] p ; 8vo. Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case G. Shelf 3. $zPencil figures on final page: 30. 16. 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). Inscribed half-title: "J. Andrews Esqr from the publisher". Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper boards; five false bands; gold lettered and numbered black spine labels; (numbered vol. 1, but complete). Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Count Peter Gamba (1801-1827), author