PRESENTED TO NELSON'S NEPHEW
Wulfhall and the seymours. With an Appendix of Original Documents discovered at Longleat.
[s.i.].
[s.n.], 1874.
Frst edition.
Quarto.
[4], 24, 53pp, [1]. Title printed in red and black. With an engraved frontispiece and a partially hand-coloured engraved map. Contemporary two-tone pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked. Presentation copy, inked inscription to title page: 'George Matcham Esq / From the Author / Privately Printed'.
A privately printed paper - read by Church of England clergyman and antiquary John Edward Jackson (1805-1891) before the Wiltshire Archaeological Society at Devizes, Tuesday 8th September, 1874 - concerning the Seymour family's residence at Wulfhall, prior to its demolition in 1569.
Jackson, Rector of Leigh Delamere and Fellow of Society of Antiquaries of London, was advisory archivist to the marquess of Bath, and arranged and indexed the bulk of the manuscripts at his Longleat estate; a succinct account of those relating to Wulfhall is appended to this essay.
George Nelson Matcham (1789-1877), lawyer and antiquary, the eldest son of George Matcham and Catherine Nelson, Admiral Horatio Nelson's sister.
OCLC records copies at just three locations (BL, Johns Hopkins, and Oxford); COPAC adds no further.
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Jackson, Rector of Leigh Delamere and Fellow of Society of Antiquaries of London, was advisory archivist to the marquess of Bath, and arranged and indexed the bulk of the manuscripts at his Longleat estate; a succinct account of those relating to Wulfhall is appended to this essay.
George Nelson Matcham (1789-1877), lawyer and antiquary, the eldest son of George Matcham and Catherine Nelson, Admiral Horatio Nelson's sister.
OCLC records copies at just three locations (BL, Johns Hopkins, and Oxford); COPAC adds no further.
