The Paston letters, 1422-1509 A.D. A reprint of the edition of 1872-5, which contained upwards of five hundred letters, etc., till then unpublished, to which are now added others in a Supplement after the introduction / edited by James Gairdner ...
James Gairdner (1828-1912
Category
Books
Date
1900 - 1908
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217875
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v., plates : ill., ports. ; 20cm (8vo). Mixed set: into & v.1: 1908; v.2-3: 1900. Loosely inserted leaf of notes in in manuscript (p.xcvii). 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). Vol. 1 endpaper inscribed: "To Lord Newton for the Lyme Park library from Edward Ridley September 26. 1910." Binding: publisher's green cloth, gold lettered on brown spine blocks.
Makers and roles
James Gairdner (1828-1912