Elegant extracts:. or useful and entertaining passages in prose selected for the improvement of scholars at classical & other schools in the art of speaking, in reading, thinking, composing; and in the conduct of life.
Category
Books
Date
1789
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3243987
Summary
Bibliographic description
A new edition.. [2] ,xvi, [8], 856p. ;. 8vo. Provenance: nineteenth-century bookplate on front pastedown of the Talbot family (motto 'Prest d'accomplir'). Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate of Charlotte, Baroness de Ferrars [i.e. Charlotte Townshend (nee Ellerker) (1755-1802), Countess of Leicester]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt spine with five raised bands; leather spine title label 'Elegant extracts in prose'; gilt edge roll; yellow edges.