Lives of the queens of Scotland : and English princesses connected with the regal succession of Great Britain / by Agnes Strickland ...
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874)
Category
Books
Date
1852
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3254306
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition. 8 v., plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 8vo. Imperfect: v. 1 only. Shelved as a set with v. 2-8 of 1st ed. (1851-1859). Uniformly bound and shelved with other works by Strickland and with Green's "Lives of the Princesses of England" (London, 1857). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Brentano's, New York'. Binding: Early twentieth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; black morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'The queens of Scotland 1' and 'Strickland'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers; brown silk ribbon marker. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'.
Makers and roles
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874), author Elizabeth Strickland (1794-1875), author