Family prayers, by the late Henry Thornton, Esqre. M.P.
Henry Thornton (1760-1815)
Category
Books
Date
1836
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3249491
Summary
Bibliographic description
Fourth edition. x,260p. ; 8vo. Printed leaf with Lord's Prayer affixed to pastedown. Marking and amendments in text. Some lines erased & omitted. Provenance: inscribed "Used by my dear Father from 1837 to 1849 - Palace Norwich - Catherine Vaughan." [i.e. re. Rt Rev Edward Stanley (1779-1849) by Catherine Maria Vaughan, née Stanley (1821-1899)] Manuscript leaf attached to rear endpaper, headed "Prayer used at Therapia and Kaulalee for the nurses 1854." [Latter prayer presumably added by Mary Stanley (1813-1879); Tarabya was site of British naval hospital in Crimean War]. Binding: nineteenth-century calf; recessed cords; gilt stamped bishop's device centrepiece; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Henry Thornton (1760-1815) Sir Robert Harry Inglis, 2nd Bt FRS, MP (1786-1855)