The book of Shakespeare gems :. in a series of landscape illustrations of the most interesting localities of Shakespeare's dramas.
Sargent, G. F
Category
Books
Date
1846
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3259297
Summary
Bibliographic description
1 v. (unpaged) :. illus. (plates) ;. 23 cm. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Text block damaged, pages loose. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Wynter Thomas Blathwayt on front pastedown [= Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt (1824-1909)]; inscription to 'Frances Elizabeth Philips, Sepr. 12. 1849, with every good and kind wish from Mary Ann Cotton Sheppard' [= Frances Elizabeth Philips, first wife of Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt (d.1869); Mary Ann Cotton Sheppard (c.1792-1872), wife of Sir Thomas Cotton-Sheppard, 2nd Baronet (1785–1848)]. Binding: nineteenth-century burgundy leather over boards; extensive decorative gilt stamping to covers and spine, including urn with floral arrangement on upper and lower covers; gilt edges; 'Book of Shakespeare Gems', place and date of publication lettered directly in gold on spine.
Makers and roles
Sargent, G. F