Miscellaneous poems, by John Byrom, M.A.F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, And Inventor of The Universal English Short-Hand. In two volumes.
John Byrom (1692-1763)
Category
Books
Date
1773
Materials
Place of origin
Manchester
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3218156
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. ; 8vo. Various loose inserts: cuttings and leaf with additional inscription. Provenance: non-indigenous. Manuscript inscription on front flyleaf: "James Cross April 16, 1873 from Edward Byrom." [i.e. given to James Cross (1847-1931?), Vicar of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, by presumably Edward Byrom, of Culver House, Exeter (1827-1911)]. Binding: eighteenth-century blue morocco, with ornate gilt tooling; on five raised bands; gilt lettered red spine labels.
Makers and roles
John Byrom (1692-1763)