History of the conquest of Mexico,. with a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican civilisation, and the life of the conqueror, Hernando Cortés.
William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1854
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3260105
Summary
Bibliographic description
7th ed.. 2 volumes, xx,479p... map. 8vo. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front flyleaf: 'Mary S. Oates' [= Mary Sarah Hibbert Oates (1834-1925), second wife of Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt (1824-1909)] Binding: nineteenth-century half binding in burgundy leather and marbled paper; marbled endpapers and edges; simple blind tooling to upper and lower covers; simple gold tooling to spine; black leather spine label with 'Conquest of Mexico, Prescott' lettered in gold; volume number lettered directly on spine.
Makers and roles
William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859), author