Works
William Robertson (1721-1793)
Category
Books
Date
1813
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3260167
Summary
Bibliographic description
A new edition, in six volumes. Vol. I. (-VI). 6v. :. ill., fold. maps, port. ;. 8vo. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: gift inscription on front flyleaf of volume 1: 'From L. Philips to Robert Wynter & M E Blathwayt, Christmas 1879' [= Robert Wynter Blathwayt (1850-1936) and his wife Margaret Ermentrude Blathwayt, nee Chandos-Pole-Gell (1854–1927), from Laetitia Philips, nee Hibbert (1797-1882), mother of Frances Elizabeth Philips (1830-1869) first wife of Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt (1824-1909)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half binding of brown leather and brown, blue, red and yellow marbled paper; matching marbled endpapers; marbled edges; simple gold tooled fillets to leather of upper and lower covers; gold tooling to spine; 'Robertson's Historical Works', and author and volume number lettered in gold directly on spine.
Makers and roles
William Robertson (1721-1793) George Gleig (1753-1840) Dugald Stewart (1753-1828)