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 3260105.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
7th ed.. volume 2, 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