Le Mie Prigioni,. Memorie di Silvio Pellico da Saluzzo; con addizioni di Pietro Maroncelli e notizie preliminary intorno all'autore
Silvio Pellico (1788-1854)
Category
Books
Date
1840
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3260097
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiii, 354 pages :. 8vo. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Robert Philips featuring a lion [= Robert Philips (1794-1853), father of Frances Elizabeth Philips, first wife of Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt (d.1869)] Binding: nineteenth-century tan leather over boards; blind-tooled diaper pattern to upper and lower covers with gold tooled double fillet border; yellow, green, red and blue marbled edges and endpapers; gold tooled board edges; floral gold tooling to spine; red leather spine label with 'Le Mie Prigioni' lettered in gold; 'Londra 1840' lettered in gold directly on tail of spine.
Makers and roles
Silvio Pellico (1788-1854)