Northern antiquities;. or, An historical account of the manners, customs, religion and laws, maritime expeditions and discoveries, language and literature of the ancient Scandinavians, (Danes, Swedes, Norwegians and Icelanders.) With incidental notices respecting our Saxon ancestors. Translated from the French of M. Mallet, by Bishop Percy.
Paul Henri Mallet (1730-1807)
Category
Books
Date
1847
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221823
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition, revised throughout, and considerably enlarged; with a translation of the prose Edda, ... and notes ... by I.A. Blackwell, Esq. To which is added, an abstract of the Eyrbyggja saga, by Sir Walter Scott.. [6],578p, [1] leaf of plates : col. ill. 19cm. Note in pencil on flyleaf verso "A1202". Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on upper pastedown, lettered "I. Forbes Leslie, Rothie Norman" [i.e. Lt. Col. Jonathan Leslie of Rothie Norman (1798-1877)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full blind embossed blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Advertisements on endpapers.
Makers and roles
Paul Henri Mallet (1730-1807), author I. A. Blackwell, author Dr Thomas Percy (1729-1811) Bishop of Dromore, editor Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), author