POLWHELE, REVEREND RICHARD - ‘THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE’
POLWHELE, REVEREND RICHARD - ‘THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE’
volumes 1-3, printed by Trewman and Son for Cadell et al, London 1797, folio, bound together within three quarter brown leather, with marbled boards, the repaired spine with half title and ridge bands, internally with bookplates for Perran Wood and Puck Memorial Library, Asheville, North Carolina
Provenance:
The collection of Perran Wood, thence by family descent.
Perran Wood was born in Cape Town in 1945. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1970s, where he became a glass expert at Sotheby’s.
In retirement, Perran devoted himself to his enduring love of books, building an extensive collection and earning widespread respect for his deep knowledge of the subject. His books were a source of lifelong curiosity and pleasure, each valued for what they held within their pages.
Repaired spine, scuffed and quite worn to edges of binding. Internally slightly stained and foxed.
POLWHELE, REVEREND RICHARD - ‘THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE’
volumes 1-3, printed by Trewman and Son for Cadell et al, London 1797, folio, bound together within three quarter brown leather, with marbled boards, the repaired spine with half title and ridge bands, internally with bookplates for Perran Wood and Puck Memorial Library, Asheville, North Carolina
Provenance:
The collection of Perran Wood, thence by family descent.
Perran Wood was born in Cape Town in 1945. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1970s, where he became a glass expert at Sotheby’s.
In retirement, Perran devoted himself to his enduring love of books, building an extensive collection and earning widespread respect for his deep knowledge of the subject. His books were a source of lifelong curiosity and pleasure, each valued for what they held within their pages.
Repaired spine, scuffed and quite worn to edges of binding. Internally slightly stained and foxed.
