Auray and its Megaliths, August 1882
Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover of Wisbech, LLD, FLS, FRGS (1830-1919)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Place of origin
Auray
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Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781814
Summary
Travel journal. Black leather cover with gilt embossed 'Auray 1882'. Marbled end papers, 181 hand-numbered lined pages. Includes 7 watercolours stuck onto pages. Bookplate 'Algernon Peckover'. Inscribed in pencil on first page 'PHP, From Alex'r and EJP, 1882'. Title page 'Auray and its Megaliths, August 1882', 'Ingotus', 'Illustrations by Florence'. A small orange slip inserted 'Key Book 1.6, to Wilhelmina from Susanna and PHP'.
Makers and roles
Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover of Wisbech, LLD, FLS, FRGS (1830-1919), writer Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, Mrs James Doyle Penrose (1859-1930), writer