The Longfellow birthday book /. arranged by Cecila Dixon.
Dixon, Cecilia
Category
Books
Date
1879
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Castle Drogo, Devon
NT 3253263
Summary
Bibliographic description
291 p., [1] leaf of plates :. ill., port. ;. 13 cm. With inserts: pink piece of blotting paper and photograph [very blurred] of man standing in front of a large house with two animals. Provenance: Previously the property of Mary Drewe (1900-1985), elder daughter of Julius Drewe and Frances Richardson Drewe and removed from Castle Drogo in 1954 when Mary left to set up a nursery school in Exmouth. Bequeathed to the current owner by Mary Drewe, and gifted to the National Trust for Castle Drogo, 2024. Signed 'Fanny Richardson Dec. 14 1881' on frontispiece verso. With numerous entries. Bookseller's ticket: 'Alfred Jubb, Bookseller, Huddersfield'. Binding: [now completely disbound and in need of full resewing and repair] Full bound in dark leather with black endpapers, title in gold on upper cover.
Makers and roles
Dixon, Cecilia Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)