Music book
Category
Books
Date
Unknown
Materials
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3223725
Summary
Bound volume of twelve late eighteenth and early ninteenth-century scores for harp (and lute).
Bibliographic description
Bound volume of twelve late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century scores for harp (and lute). Provenance: Ink inscription to front pastedown: 'Anne Yorke / the gift of her Aunt Diana Yorke / Oct. 4th 1821' [i.e. to Anne Yorke (1810-1853), wife of Charles S.T. Birch, daughter of Simon Yorke II (1771-1834) from Diana York (1783-1855), daughter of Philip Yorke I (1743-1804)] Binding: Early nineteenth-century half mottled calf over marbled boards, spine with eight gilt rules, blue morocco label to upper cover, tooled and lettered gilt: Harp Music; corners and spine ends eroded, edges rubbed.