The history of Greece. By William Mitford, Esq.
William Mitford (1744-1827)
Category
Books
Date
1795
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222914
Summary
Bibliographic description
The third edition. 4v., plate: ill., map, 8vo. (22cm). Bound uniformly and shelved with vols 5-6 of the first edition, 1797. Folded map in vol. 1. Marked "L C3"; "1 D". Provenance: Late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century monogram bookplate, lettered "FL" set underneath an earl's coronet within an elongated octagonal frame [i.e. Lady Frances Pratt (ca. 1751-1833), dau. of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden, and 2nd wife of Robert Stewart (from 1775), cr. 1st Earl of Londonderry in 1796, cr. 1st Marquess of Londonderry in 1816]. Inscribed on flyleaf "Georgiana Stewart 23d of April Eighteen hundred & two - 1802 Anno domini 1802" [i.e. Lady Georgiana Stewart (d. 1804), 4th daughter of Robert and Frances Stewart, 1st Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full mottled calf. Sewn on recessed cords, gilt tooling on spine. Green leather spine label, lettered in gilt "Mitford's Hist. of Greece". Edges densely sprinkled red and brown.
Makers and roles
William Mitford (1744-1827), author