The life of Nelson /. By Robert Southey.
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Category
Books
Date
1814
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3260163.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition.. v.1, plates :. ill..,port..;. 8vo. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: initials in pencil on front flyleaf 'M. S. B' [likely = Mary Sarah Blathwayt, nee Hibbert Oates (1834-1925), second wife of Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt (1824-1909)]; ownership inscription in black ink on title page, 'A. M. Oates 1815' [= Anna Maria Oates, aunt of Mary Sarah Hibbert Oates]. Binding: nineteenth-century red leather over boards; gilt edges; gold and blind tooled borders to upper and lower covers; gold tooling to spine; 'Southey's Life of Nelson' and volume number lettered in gold directly on spine.
Makers and roles
Robert Southey (1774-1843)