Accession number
PML 152438
Creator
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Published
London : Printed for W. Peacock and Sons ... , 1803 ([London] : Printed by C. Rickaby, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street.)
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Frontispiece signed "Borckhardt delt. ... Pubd as the Act directs Feby 1803 by W. Peacock, Salisbury Sq. London. - P. W. Tomkins Sculpt."
Inscribed on verso of front flyleaf, "-Aug: Ann de Crespigny- Given her by Mrs. Estridge June 4th 1872, in remembrance of her lamented husband who died the 24th of the preceding month."
Inscribed on verso of front flyleaf, "-Aug: Ann de Crespigny- Given her by Mrs. Estridge June 4th 1872, in remembrance of her lamented husband who died the 24th of the preceding month."
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : ill., front. ; 14 cm
Provenance
Provenance note pasted inside box cover: "These books were given by Mrs. Estridge to Mrs. de Crespigny, 2nd wife of Sir Joseph Whatley, in 1814. Mrs. Estridge was sister to Sir Joseph. They came into possession of Mrs. Ireby Fisher, great-grand-daughter of Sir Joseph, and were given by her to Captain F. C. Tyler, late Royal Field Artillery, - her cousin - in 1910." ; Joseph Estridge (bookplate); from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., enclosed in a contemporary straight-grain morocco box and edges, simulating a set of books.
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