Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets, together with some few of later date.
Dr Thomas Percy (1729-1811) Bishop of Dromore
Category
Books
Date
1775
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3224004
Summary
Bibliographic description
The third edition. ... 3v. : ill., music ; 8vo. Colour card illustration of 'Bishop Percy's House, Bridgnorth' pasted to v.1 flyleaf, inscribed 'James Cross'. Provenance: eighteenth-century[?] armorial bookplate, with crest of hand holding book aloft; nineteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: George Burdett Esqr, Longtown House. Titlepage inscribed: Frances Browne Dublin 1817; [in twentieth-century hand] James Cross Balie House Wimborne. Half-title inscribed: Monica [Cross] from father [James Cross] Sept. 1923. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; gilt roll border; gilt tooled spines (worn); gilt lettered red spine labels: Percy's Ancient Poetry.
Makers and roles
Dr Thomas Percy (1729-1811) Bishop of Dromore, compiler James Dodsley (1724-1797).