Family memoirs / by Sir Oswald Mosley.
Mosley, Oswald, Sir, 1785-1871
Category
Books
Date
1849
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3237222
Summary
Bibliographic description
iv, 78, xxviii p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., facsim. (col.), port. ; 28 cm. Pastedown label, ms. numbered "No 2". Loose insert: scrap paper manuscript note in nineteenth-century hand: Sir John Parker Mosley married Elizabeth Bayley, whose mother was a daughter of Samuel Peploe Bishop of Chester.” Provenance: inscribed on pastedown "Presented to A.N.E. Mosley Esqre by his affectionate cousin and faithful friend Oswald Mosley" [i.e. Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Bt of Ancoats (1785-1871) to Ashton Nicholas Every Mosley (1792-1875), grandfather of Col. Godfrey Mosley (1863-1945) who married Hilda Harpur Crewe in 1918]. Binding: nineteenth-century red calf; gilt tooled borders, blind tooled centre panel, gold lettered; five false bands; gilt tooled spine, board edges and turn-ins.
Makers and roles
Mosley, Oswald, Sir, 1785-1871