History of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain.. By William H. Prescott. In two volumes.
William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1854
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3260162
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plate. ill.., port... 8vo. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: ownership inscription 'Mary S Oates' in brown ink on front flyleaf [= Mary Sarah Hibbert Oates (1834-1925), second wife of Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt (1824-1909)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half binding in burgundy leather (very faded) and blue, burgundy and orange marbled paper; matching marbled edges and endpapers; simple blind tooling to upper and lower covers; simple gold tooling to spine; black leather spine label with 'Ferdinand & Isabella. Prescott' lettered in gold; volume number lettered in gold directly on spine.
Makers and roles
William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859)