Steill's pictorial spelling book : or, a series of easy and progressive lesson on facts and objects.
Steill, Benjamin
Category
Books
Date
1842
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3220540
Summary
Bibliographic description
126, [8] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18cm. Imperfect: wants t.p. Pencil doodles on endpapers. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf in child's hand "Richard haper[sic] Crewe from his dear papa" [i.e.Richard Harpur Crewe (1836-96), son of Sir George Crewe 8th Bt and Jane Whitaker]. Also inscribed on flyleaf verso "Richard Harpur Crewe Calke Abbey Derbyshire" and "given by his sister M.A. Crewe [i.e. Mary Adeline Crewe (1834-1930), daughter of Sir George Crewe 8th Bt and Jane Whitaker] to Aiyton Richardson Whitaker (3d cousin) Bournemouth 1921". Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's blind embossed full green cloth, blind lettering on upper cover.
Makers and roles
Steill, Benjamin