Memoirs of William Hickey /. edited by Alfred Spencer.
William Hickey (1749-1827)
Category
Books
Date
1919 - 1925
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3221002.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2: ill., ports. ;. 23 cm. Mixed set: v.1 3rd ed. 1919; v.2 2nd ed.1919; v.3 undated; v.4 1925. Annotated throughout and on pastedowns. With two newspaper reviews of the Hutchinson edition of this work, edited by Peter Quennell, and one review of this edition by Edward Hodgkin,pasted in v.1. Provenance: v.1 inscribed "Margaret Greville Polesden Lacey 1921" [i.e. Margaret Helen Greville, DBE, née Anderson, (1863–1942); v.2 inscribed "Cecil A Bailey 29th Aug 1923". All volumes have twentieth-century armorial bookplate , lettered "John Stafford Reid Byers" with manuscript "1943" [i.e. barrister, of Waterfoot House, Newcastle, County Down, (1903-1984)]. Vols. 2 and 3 with blue bookseller's ticket on lower pastedown of W.H. Smith & son, booksellers & stationers, 19-21 Corporation Street, Birmingham. Binding: publisher's dark blue cloth, gold-lettered on spine.
Makers and roles
William Hickey (1749-1827) Alfred Spencer (b.1850)