Library bookplate
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 40620.7
Summary
Thirty-four library bookplates illustrated with images of Tyntesfield, the Chapel, the Wraxall Coat of Arms, the widely used phrase: EN DIOS MI AMPARO Y ESPERANZA (In God my protection and hope), the Wraxall family motto: TENAX PROPOSTTI (Firm of purpose) and a lower title reading: GEORGE ABRAHAM GIBBS, / OF TYNTESFIELD. In a lidded cardboard box labelled on the side: Oxford Reference Bible / on India Paper / BREVIER 16MO. CLARENDON. No.
Provenance
This memory/keepsake trunk was instigated by George Abraham Gibbs (1873-1931) at some point after the death of his first wife Victoria (Via) Florence de Burgh Gibbs (1880-1920) and before, or shortly after, he married his second wife, Ursula Lawley, in 1927. He filled it with items belonging to himself and Via, and presented it to their daughter, Doreen, who added further items to the trunk. Upon Doreen’s death in 2008, the trunk and its contents were inherited by Doreen’s daughter, Victoria Eyre.