Middleton, HaydnBiblio.com
Joseph HaydnBiblio.com
Dictionary of Dates and Universal Reference: Relating to all Ages and Nations
1851GEN20-I-1London : Edward Moxon 1851. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. A scarce early edition of this well established reference work. The fifth edition. With a bookbinder's label for Cash and Astle Coleman Street London to the rear pastedown. 'The whole comprehending a body of information classical political and domestic from the earliest accounts to the present time'. There is a publisher's catalogue to the front. Direct from the Widdrington library at Newton Hall - the family's eighteenth-century country house near Alnwick Northumberland - with the armorial bookplate of S.E. Widdrington and a pencil shelfmark to the front pastedown. Samuel Edward Widdrington formerly Cook 1787-1856 was an English writer. Having served as a Royal Navy Captain he spent some years in Spain and wrote several books about the country. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Society. He assumed the name Widdrington by royal license and purchased the moiety in 1842. In 1854 he served as High Sheriff of Northumberland. He inherited the Newton Hall estate from his father Joseph Cook. In a cloth binding with blindstamped decoration. Externally some shelfwear. Internally firmly bound. Bright with occasional light foxing prominent to margins and first and last few pages. Some dusting to extreme outer margins. Several of the pages are unopened. Very Good Edward Moxon hardcover
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