The Cheverels of Cheverel Manor
by Newdigate Newdegate, Lady
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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York , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans Green & Co, 1898. 231pp with hand cut edges. The vellum coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coat of arms is bumped to the edges and a little darkened with age. B + w illustrations from family portraits, with foxing to the tissue guards. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The history and letters of the Newdigate family from 1719 to 1806 - visits to Buxton and Manchester, sitting to Romney, a day at Naples with Nelson and Lady Hamilton, Sally Shilton's musical debut, visits to Portsmoth, Margate etc. One of the events at Arbury is said to be the origin of the story by George Eliot 'Mr Gilfil's Love Story' in 'Scenes of Clerical Life'. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hessay Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15116
- Title
- The Cheverels of Cheverel Manor
- Author
- Newdigate Newdegate, Lady
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans Green & Co
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- History, Nelson, ROmney, Buxton, Bath, Margate, George Eliot
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