The poems of Hill, Cawthorn and Bruce.
Aaron Hill (1685-1750)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217955
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 324 p., plates ; 12mo. Could be imperfect: possibly wants plates. Vol. 1 of series inscribed: 100 vols 18/-/ [i.e. for whole series]. Old Lyme Park library shelfmark label: Case C. Shelf 4. 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). Binding: nineteenth-century imitation green morocco (sheep); gilt tooled; gilt lettered and numbered spines: British poets ... Uniform with series.
Makers and roles
Aaron Hill (1685-1750), author Michael Bruce (1746-1767), author Reverend James Cawthorn (1719-1761), author Richard Alfred Davenport (1776/7 - 1852), author