Accession number
PML 152551.1
Creator
Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800.
Published
London : [Privately printed], Printed in the year MDCCLXXIV. [i.e. 1774].
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman; 1994.
Notes
"Wrote in 1769"--Colophon, p. 63.
Errata slip pasted on t.p. verso.
Ornamental headpieces and tailpieces, printers device/vignette beneath title.
Inscribed under the title, "By Lady Strathmore. ... This play was never -- published. A very few copies only were printed & given away."
With 1 leaf mss. description in the same hand as on t.p., listing nos. 1-[3] and titles, and "This volume was sold in W.J. Reed's Sale/see lot 8562/ for the sum of 2.12.6 -- it was purchased by W. Barker (?) the Bookseller for the late W North".
Errata slip pasted on t.p. verso.
Ornamental headpieces and tailpieces, printers device/vignette beneath title.
Inscribed under the title, "By Lady Strathmore. ... This play was never -- published. A very few copies only were printed & given away."
With 1 leaf mss. description in the same hand as on t.p., listing nos. 1-[3] and titles, and "This volume was sold in W.J. Reed's Sale/see lot 8562/ for the sum of 2.12.6 -- it was purchased by W. Barker (?) the Bookseller for the late W North".
Description
[4], 63 p. ; 21 cm
Provenance
Frances Mary Richardson Currer (bookplate); From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
3/4 red levant morocco "by J. Mackenzie, bookbinder to the king", with red, yellow and blue marbled boards and endpapers.
Classification
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