The House of Lyme : from its foundation to the end of the eighteenth century /. By the Lady Newton. Illustrated.
Evelyn Caroline Bromley Davenport, Baroness Newton (1859 - 1931)
Category
Books
Date
1917
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3248868
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 422, [2] p., plates : ill., ports., geneal. tab. (fold.), map (fold.) ; 24cm. Priced in pencil: 21/- net. Provenance; monogram bookplate unidentified: possibly "ENOLR"[?] With loosely inserted autograph letter signed from Evelyn Caroline Bromley Legh, Lady Newton, née Davenport (1859-1931), at Eaton Square, London, to Lady Penelope Stamford, sending book and explaining provenance: "the book-plate of the poor lady who evidently had to sell her library." Dated: March 16, 1921. Flyleaf inscribed: To Lord & Lady Stamford for the library at Dunham with the authoress's love E. Newton March 1921." With Lady Newton's annotations and corrections to text. Binding: publisher's blue cloth, coloured Lyme armorial, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Evelyn Caroline Bromley Davenport, Baroness Newton (1859 - 1931)