Anecdotes of distinguished persons, chiefly of the last and two preceding centuries. Illustrated with engravings. ...
William Seward (1747-1799)
Category
Books
Date
1804
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3219690
Summary
Bibliographic description
The fifth edition. ... 4v., [17] leaves of plates :. ill., ports., facsims., music ;. 8vo. Bookseller's pencil price note, v.1: 2.8.0 4 vol. Provenance: gilt cover stamp: coronet, with initials: L.C.A. [i.e. presumably Louisa Catherine Anson, Lady Lichfield, née Phillips (d.1879)]; nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: C.G. Okeover [i.e. Rev. Charles Gregory Okeover (1792-1826), m. Mary Anne Anson (1803-1875)]. Binding: nineteenth-century calf; gilt roll border; gilt stamped centrepiece device and gilt tooled spine; spine labels missing: Seward's Anecdotes.
Makers and roles
William Seward (1747-1799)