Old England.:. a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, municipal, baronial, and popular antiquities. /. Edited by Charles Knight. In two volumes. Vol. I. (-II)
Charles Knight (1791-1873)
Category
Books
Date
c. 1860
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 3217880
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.(iv, [1], 392 p., [19] leaves of col. plates ; v, [1], 404 p., [23] leaves of col. plates). ill.. (inc. col. plates), plans, ports... 36 cm. Vol 1: Upper boards disbound, spine damaged. Inserted between pages 112 and 113, torn 13cm piece of paper with 'Norman's...Wholesale and... Telephone No. 183.' printed in blue on back, and handwritten notes in pencil on front. Vol. 2: Upper and lower boards, front flyleaf and frontispiece disbound, spine disbound and missing. Attempted repair with a strip of white texture glued onto titlepage. Inserted between upper boards and front flyleaf, 9 cm tinted postcard of Durham Cathedral, from Eleanor addressed to [uncle?] Wright Esq, Chastleton House', stamped Bristol, 3 Sep 1943. Inserted between pages 64 and 65, 21 cm single yellow sheet 'map fold'-style travel agent's pamphlet titled in red lettering 'County tours A week in lovely Lucerne'. Between pages 212 and 213, two 29 cm torn and unbound magazine leaves titled 'Fragments', Edited by Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather', Vol. 1. No. 8, September 3, 1919, pages cover-225 and 227-228. Between pages 232 and 233, 9 cm piece of brown packing paper. Provenance: in ink on front flyleaf verso 'Alfred[?] Wright'. Binding: half leather with purple-brown pebble-grained cloth boards, gilt tooling. Blind decorative tooling on spine with gilt lettering.
Makers and roles
Charles Knight (1791-1873)